why do women choose pretty boys over real men?
for example, most girls in the us have a crush on pretty boy actors such as leonardo dicaprio (even though he became more of a man in the departed) and zac efron, but even as they mature, they are still attracted to pretty boys. pretty boys like zac efron won't protect their women from muggers or beat the brains out of other guys who are hitting on their women, and i thought women were attracted to men who they thought could protect them. men aren't supposed to look pretty- they are traditionally supposed to provide for their families and protect them. 

i have women telling me that they don't like pretty boys, yet they want me to grow my hair out to look like a surfer hippie, when i like my hair short, since i am a man. 

you don't see too many older women attracted to real, older men like bruce willis, clint eastwood, and mel gibson. why is that?
i dont know what girls you've been hanging around but i love clint eastwood! out of all those guys you've mentioned. i can't stand zac efron. sorry but i just dont like guys that wear foundation, or make up period. leonardo dicaprio is okay, dont really have a problem with him but not crazy about him by all means. i think hes a good actor. 

i am much more attracted to the "real" men than any "pretty boy". that will never change! 

i'm 17, so age has nothing to do with it.
girls have mental issues. straight guys say they don’t go for starving anorexic girls. the modeling industry pushed starving anorexic girls that looked like they were going to die for decades. the modeling industry is run by gay men. gay men think women with masculine sharp features and no curves are attractive. i wounder why… they are attracted to twink boy looking guys… common sense… so what do girls do? they think if you add 150-200 pounds to an anorexic girl and start marketing obese models that they are now somehow sexy. again they aren’t. they’re just fat. swinging from one extreme to the other is flaky extremism…it makes you look fucking crazy. there are healthy thin fit women, that have boobs, ass, sometimes a small amount of fat on their belly, they have a bit of toned muscle, etc. but they still look thin and healthy. they aren’t fat and they aren’t skeletor. they are fucking normal. they have a butt, they have boobs, their have some substance to their facial features, etc. for men it's not so bad as long as you can deal with the pressure of everyone demanding sexual behavior that often runs contrary to what you may actually want to do. but the steady supply of young butt-horny dicksuckers probably makes up for it.for women, it takes a certian state of mind to not be subsumed by the attention. while it is easy money up front, if a girl starts to entertain the thought that this is what she could do with her life, that's where the problems start. porn isn't a backup plan - it is necissarily a temp job for women, which they simply don't get offers for after the age of 30 or so (unless they have a history with a producer or something). not necessarily. many men prefer bald others do not care others prefer trimmed and again others like the bush. i have no preference - if the choice is bald-shaved vs bald-waxed neglecting longer hair styles you would have to rely on the votes of the bald specialist faction... the nudity/exposed skin isn't on its own the reason why such women aren't taken as seriously. rather, it's their inability to recognize and adapt to their situation/environment and to observe the expectations of that particular situation.example: no one judges women who are showing tons of skin on a beach, because that's an appropriate place to show tons of skin. but if you have an office job and you go to work dressed like a call girl, then you will be dressed inappropriately for the situation, and people won't take you seriously. it's no different than if you were to go meet with an investment banker about managing your money, and when you show up to his office, he's wearing shorts and a hoodie - while that *technically* doesn't mean he's not good at his job, such clothes are inappropriate for that context, and a lot of potential customers are going to walk away.people who aren't able to determine that they are dressed inappropriately for their situation are having their judgement called into question more than the clothes themselves. if your judgement is questionable (or outright wrong), then people aren't going to take you seriously in other areas either. it's hard to say if they "like him" but they certainly must find him attractive. it's really a combination of factors. firstly, i have to be attracted to the girl. and there isn't just one thing that's enough to catch my interest. for instance, i am really attracted to light-skinned latinas with black hair, dark eyes, a nice butt, healthy and on the shorter side. so her looks will catch my eye but for me to pursue trying to talk to her, she has to have the right personality cues. if she seems slutty, stuck-up, rude, etc. i'll pass on her. in that instance, i prefer quieter girls who are kind of shy, have at least an above average level of intelligence, and act modest -- a demure girl i could say. hugh beaumont. i've always had a thing for older men. though this actor isn't alive. but when he did leave it to beaver... man so sexy... i also like that he was religious in real life. he also didn't kill anyone in ww2 which is super smart. like he got out of killing during the war I think when he said he was a playboy he might not have been lying. He might just not be mature even though he's 40 and while he might be good with monogamous he might not be into having a serious relationship. I tend to attract younger men too. It hasn't been really anything I openly pursued I just look younger on a good day. I haven't gone out with any younger because the men who seemed interested fell just below the 40 year mark or I think they were younger than 40. It's hard to tell sometimes If it helps, really super attractive people get cheated on just as often as grumpy ones. Your looks aren’t a big part of it. Odds are someone cheated on her and she has weird trust issues or she had issues with communication and got lonely because of bottling shit up. Either way, it doesn’t comment on your quality as a partner. some do probably. others are just more conservative and don't think that women sleeping around is a good thing. although some of those are probably hypocrites who watch a lot of porn and would love to have sex with a lot of women if they could, not all of them though. you're also off on the idea that everything is entirely up to women, and that the power dynamic will flip when you're older. neither of these things are true at all. it's not entirely up to women or else women would never get hurt, and the whole power dynamic flipping at 30+ thing is a cope for guys who can't get laid in their 20s.