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by BadassFractal 5107 days ago
It's also because most men believe that they have no chance with a 9 or a 10. Why bother messaging someone who they believe is vastly out of their league?

Some men are great at hacking the system and ignoring a woman's physical attractiveness, thus scoring really desirable mates. Others instead implicitly follow the rules of thumb that psychology discovered a while ago, according to which an attractive person is much more likely to be with another attractive person.