Indeed, I agree with you. I think we've all fell for beauty at least once.

The best way of dealing with the pretty mares is to be the jockey, not the stabler!

I think your third point is an interesting one; I've not come across it before and I'll certainly give it some thought and see if it accords with my experience of life so far but my instict is that it is wrong. To my mind "bad boys" often equate to alpha males and in my experience alpha males tend to attract women. Some of those women may indeed lack self esteem but I don't think that that alters the fact that deep in the mentality of women lies an inclination to be sexually attracted to men who project masculinity and power and "bad boys" often do that. You imply that their masculinity is always a sham but I don't know why this should be so and even if it was, and women were conned by it, it would still remain true that they were attracted to this trait which would argue against their attraction arising from lack of self esteem since attraction to alpha males is sensible from an evolutionary point of view.
Your conclusion that these men are all they can get also seems to fly in the face of evidence since it is often the prettyest women who go for these men; women who could get other men if it is what they wanted.

Pretty women go for "bad boys" mainly because "bad boys" don't give a shit about anything, least of all pretty women..

Imagine, everywhere you go, you are surrounded by grovelling chaps all trying to impress you..

All but one of them tries his luck, and he is ignoring you completely, like you don't even exist..

Naturally, you want to know why..

So you ask the blokes who will chat with you..

"Who is that chap?"

"Oh, thats Roger, you don't want to stand too close to him, you will get pregnant by osmosis.."..

Curious, you decide to find out more, so you move over to sit down near him..

Even before your cute little rear touches the seat, Rogers hand has reached out and you have sat on his hand..

He is grinning and the lads are all laughing..

Normally, you would throw your drink over a rude man like that, but something tells you that would not be a good idea, in front of his friends, especially since there is something in his grin that suggests that possible impregnation over the table there and then would be a better thing to endure than what he might do if you don't play the game to his rules..

So, you give him a playful smack, and he wiggles his tongue around while staring at your top rack..

I won't bother explaining how the rest of it goes..

But the pool table was the correct height and although it may have been the best 5 minutes of her life I later found myself on the banned list of all the public houses in that town..

I was surprised, as I often had a "direct action" approach to getting business done when I was younger and far less sane than I am today..

I had an arrangement with many of the "door security" meatheads.. I helped them get pussy and have fun on their days off.. they looked after me when I was being a dickhead..

They didn't like that deal much.. And they liked even less that I used to plonk their bitches.. I made the mistake of plonking each and every one of their haddocks in the same week and telling them about it.. actually, I did it in front of them, in bars, clubs, pool halls, their houses.. They didn't find it funny when they were ALL affected.. Although when it was just one of them the others would laugh and tell the poor sap "Roger has done you a favour mate.. she's a slag.. the stunt dick has proved it!"..

What attracts pretty women to bad boys?

Who gives a fuck..

What attracts bad boys to pretty women, who are being wasted on stupid blokes who don't know what to do with their haddocks?

Life is shit, then you die, some folks are scared to live, too timid to take risks, and where does it get them when some slice of pie can come along and have them acting like little puppy dogs grovelling and begging for the wound?

Its easy to regret the "stupidity" of ones youth, to look back and say "I wish I hadn't done that" etc..

But that's just life.. We can't go round telling young men to not do the things we did, and we can't even tell them what is right or wrong, what is good or bad..

Because, every generation of young men has to work it out for himself..

It's up to us old farts to help them work it out..

By the way, that entire article is total crap. Men are not "shallow" and there is nothing much other than looks that a woman exclusively has to offer a hetro male that men or pets cannot offer the same.. Not that my jack russel can cook as well as the mistress, but its a close call on the "cleaning skills"..

Great points Percy.

5. Recognise and acknowledge that a pretty girl is a pretty girl. Those qualities are fine as they are and can be acknowledged. But for Lord Harry's sake do not see them as any sort of Treasure to be won or stolen. They ain't yours and it is ONLY you that gives them more value than they are really worth.

Parsifal:

5. Recognise and acknowledge that a pretty girl is a pretty girl. Those qualities are fine as they are and can be acknowledged. But for Lord Harry's sake do not see them as any sort of Treasure to be won or stolen. They ain't yours and it is ONLY you that gives them more value than they are really worth.

So true.