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Assigning number values to people's looks

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LakeShoreLimited
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It's that one to ten scale of "sexual marketplace value." It's usually about women, but it can apply to men too.

I never heard it used from the 1970s into the early 21st Century. People would be aware of other people's appearance, but they wouldn't try to quantify it so bluntly. Now "red pill" men are completely obsessed with it. In their minds, everybody is a number. Also, calling it a "marketplace" is kind of strange too.

The first time I heard the number thing was with the Bo Derek movie "10." I had to read a review to figure out want it meant. Even after the movie, no one used numbers for years.
clum
Clumeleon
This is something a 6 would post.
Magical_felix
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A New York 9 is like an LA 5, this has to be considered when your bro is telling you about his conquest.

So like if your bro is telling you about this 10 he boinked at the flying J's in Tulare... That Tulare 10 is like a San Diego 2.
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This is something a 6 would post.


I'm sixty-five-years old, so it doesn't matter anymore.

You're, what, twenty-nine? Just wait a few decades, you'll see.
clum
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I'm sixty-five-years old, so it doesn't matter anymore.

You're, what, twenty-nine? Just wait a few decades, you'll see.


Just a joke, mate. No idea what you look like so couldn't possibly "rate" you, even if I wanted to.

Since I've got you, what exactly do you want people to discuss in this thread? There was no question in the OP. Is it just whether or not we should do this? The ethics of it? Our own experiences of it?
sprite
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fyi, Jack's an 11. not saying in which part of the country, though.

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clum
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fyi, Jack's an 11.


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LakeShoreLimited
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Just a joke, mate. No idea what you look like so couldn't possibly "rate" you, even if I wanted to.

Since I've got you, what exactly do you want people to discuss in this thread? There was no question in the OP. Is it just whether or not we should do this? The ethics of it? Our own experiences of it?


I got that it was a joke. Sorry, one really does get crotchety at this age.

Okay, I do have two questions.

1. Indeed, what are the experiences of the people here regarding it?

2. Why did it become so prevalent?

A third question.

3. Is it used much outside of English-speaking countries?
Unknown User
We most definitely use the number system in LA
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I don't think I've ever seen/heard people actually rating people's looks on a 1-10 scale, just using "10" on its own to mean "hot/attractive". And that's probably largely because of the movie (which came out as I was starting high school).
Buz
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fyi, Jack's an 11. not saying in which part of the country, though.


And you're grading on a very generous curve, right?
LakeShoreLimited
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I don't think I've ever seen/heard people actually rating people's looks on a 1-10 scale, just using "10" on its own to mean "hot/attractive". And that's probably largely because of the movie (which came out as I was starting high school).


It may be to some extent lingo on red pill/MGTOW sites and videos. I haven't heard it in New York, but I'm out of the social loop here.

My daughter is twenty-nine; I should ask her about it.
Beffer
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Quote by LakeShoreLimited


Okay, I do have two questions.

1. Indeed, what are the experiences of the people here regarding it?

2. Why did it become so prevalent?

A third question.

3. Is it used much outside of English-speaking countries?



I haven't observed common use of the 1-10 thing since college, where it was pretty common among frat-boys, who tend to objectify women. It's a pretty subjective scale, so it doesn't represent anything more than an individual's taste in the opposite sex. It's a 'bro' thing, prevalent in venues where males congregate... online, in the office, in school...
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I haven't observed common use of the 1-10 thing since college, where it was pretty common among frat-boys, who tend to objectify women. It's a pretty subjective scale, so it doesn't represent anything more than an individual's taste in the opposite sex. It's a 'bro' thing, prevalent in venues where males congregate... online, in the office, in school...


I think I mentioned how it may have started as lingo on red pill/MGTOW/pick-up artist blogs and videos. Among the general public, probably not so much. On-line, I think I started seeing it about five years ago.
Beffer
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I think I mentioned how it may have started as lingo on red pill/MGTOW/pick-up artist blogs and videos. Among the general public, probably not so much. On-line, I think I started seeing it about five years ago.


It's much older than that. It goes back to the 70s at least. I was in college 20 years ago, and it was being used back then too.
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It's much older than that. It goes back to the 70s at least. I was in college 20 years ago, and it was being used back then too.


At the least the 70s with the movie 10 released in 1979 by Blake Edwards starring Bo Derek and Dudley Moore. Dudley's character, George Webber, saw Bo Derek running in a bikini on the beach to the musical score of Bolero and rated her an eleven on a scale of one to ten.

I can remember it as far back at the early seventies, possibly late sixties.
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At the least the 70s with the movie 10 released in 1979 by Blake Edwards starring Bo Derek and Dudley Moore. Dudley's character, George Webber, saw Bo Derek running in a bikini on the beach to the musical score of Bolero and rated her an eleven on a scale of one to ten.

I can remember it as far back at the early seventies, possibly late sixties.


I'm sure that I, like many people, am guilty of taking narrow experiences and generalizing them to everyone else. My school. the City College of New York, had a reputation for being to the "left" and had been since the 1930s. In the 1970s, there was definitely an air of political correctness at the place, although that's another term I never heard.

Then again, I didn't know what was on the minds of all 10,000 students there.
Dancewithme
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Assigning numbers to people's looks to me is juvenile. Really, I have very seldom seen a person who did not have any redeeming features, and sides to themselves.
subliminalmessage
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This must be what my last beau meant when they said I was their number 1...
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We most definitely use the number system in LA




How's this for Los Angeles specific: Last time we had a hot server at the bar, we just played a game of "musician, actor, or model." We made a game out of it. We asked him when he returned. Handsome actor. Which meant I lost and had to pay for my friend's cocktail.

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How's this for Los Angeles specific: Last time we had a hot server at the bar, we just played a game of "musician, actor, or model." We made a game out of it. We asked him when he returned. Handsome actor. Which meant I lost and had to pay for my friend's cocktail.


Mmhhmm, this one too. We tend to get the struggling actors often.
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Mmhhmm, this one too. We tend to get the struggling actors often.




I asked my twenty-eight-year-old daughter about this. She knows about the scale, but has never heard it used in New York conversations.

I haven't been in Los Angeles for a long time, so I'll defer to your expertise on that matter.