Rating And Dating!

A rating scale has the obvious advantage of simplifying something into a logical and coherent structure. To use it to rate women, even more so. I see you men wincing and you women baying for my blood. But it's an unsavory fact of life and one must accept it just like Scientology and Madonna. You can deny it all you want but these elements do exist.

The most widely used scale is the 1-10 rating system. The women are slotted on this scale based on certain purportedly objective characteristics. Although one might argue that one's subjective tastes color the rating handed out. The one's at the top, i.e. a 10 is someone we really want to be with and may be someone out of our league. Then come the 8's and 9's who we like and may also be dating. Then come the 7's who are actually 8's without the make-up. And then come the 6 and below who are generally not to be 'gamed'. This rating system however modified in it's various forms holds some resemblance to the one I roughly outlined. Now I personally used this version of the system and noticed some flaws. For e.g a girl who would be rated a 10 by me would not even begin to appeal to a friend. Does that mean that she isn't fucking hot? No, it just means that my subjective judgment of her ability to put out easily clouded my objective rating by maybe pushing her up the scale a point or 2. Other times there would be a girl I would be attracted to based on certain..uh..qualities and yet would find that I would only rate her a 7. Which is low according to my standard rating and would lead to confusion on whether I should pursue the girl or quit.

Thus I came to believe that this system though it has served me well in the past now needs to either be modified or discarded completely. Then it came to me, the most simple yet profound method of rating which is actually a misnomer since it doesn't involve digits. I just had to ask myself 1 simple question and the answer to that would determine whether I would go ahead or cut my losses and look elsewhere. The answer would also be closed-ended which would eliminate any ambiguousness by only allowing me a yes or a no as my choice. The time has come to reveal the question which may at first sound stupid as it did to me too but one will meditate and savor the question and maybe even roll it around in one's mouth till one comes to terms with it's profoundness.

"Do I find this woman attractive?" is the question guys. Pause and let it sink in and marvel and delight in it's simplicity. Once you're done silently mumbling thanks to God for giving me to the world here's why I think the question kicks ass. It makes it possible to add my subjective judgment to the equation thus making a rating much more personal. The margin of error is reduced which means I wouldn't waste my time on that girl who is a perfect ten when it comes to looks but thinks scoring 97 in an I.Q test means she scored 97%. Gad! Unless you actually are that stupid yourself, but even then the system would still work. It would also give me an opportunity to know a wide variety of women since I would have normally constricted myself using the old system to only really hot bimbos who thought Barack Obama referred to military quarters in Africa.

I know my pioneering work in this field will be a great boon to a lot of guys out there who think about these sort of things but find no one to answer their questions. You can be rest assured that nothing is too stupid for me to devote a little time to writing on these days. And if I do get that call from the Nobel Committee I know it's only my readers that I have to thank for making it possible.