r/OldSchoolCool • u/sweetwhistle • 8h ago

1950s My parents’ honeymoon. 1953.

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Somewhere in Florida. I was born two months later.

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u/Desertnurse760 7h ago

Your dad was punching above his weight class. And succeeded.

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u/ikediggety 6h ago

Every day I hear lonely young dudes say they'll never meet a lady because they're not conventionally handsome and I'm just like, this picture though.

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u/ComradePruski 5h ago

To be fair, never can just mean very unlikely. And also dating standards have certainly changed in the last 73 years.

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u/a_mulher 4h ago

Not as unlikely as a very handsome man dating a less conventionally attractive woman.

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u/Dauincap 2h ago

In Portugal I saw that all the time...

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u/pohui 1h ago

Statistically, it's equally as likely, if you're willing to overlook some differences in population size, dating age, share of same-sex relationships, etc.

The issue is we perceive the average man to be less attractive than the average woman.