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When people say that someone looks average, what do they mean? What does the average man or average woman even look like? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by CyberGhost@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

tbh it basically means "neither ugly nor attractive to me"

It has nothing to do with actual averages.

[–] CyberGhost@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The way that I have seen people use it is as “I find you unattractive, but I dont want to hurt your feelings”

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Unattractive, yes, but not ugly.

It's more like "I personally don't find you attractive, but I guess someone else might"

[–] CyberGhost@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Isnt the case that there will always be someone who finds someone attractive?

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

Sure, but that doesn't mean it's always imaginable. People generally don't realize how broad the human experience is.

So what they actually mean is "I can imagine a hypothetical person being attracted to you"