What's a thing a lot of guys say that you always take with a grain of salt

Brief aside: am I the only one that gets pissed off with Reddit for limiting comment posting rates based on recent karma? It pretty much guarantees that if you say something unpopular, you won't be allowed to defend/clarify/continue the discussion at all. Anyway, that's why my replies are so slow. :P (/rant)

Scond, just to be clear: I'm not saying the inverse is true. I think that "Women who don't wear makeup aren't shallow" is a pretty accurate statement; "Women who wear makeup are shallow" is not. The only generalization I'm making is across the (fairly small) set that don't.

What I'm saying is actually pretty minor: If I'm in a room with twenty women, I can only talk to one of them, and one of them isn't wearing makeup, then all other things being equal I'll talk to that one. People seem to be reacting as if I'd said "All women who wear makeup are vapid/shallow/have no personalities of their own."

I can see your point about just wearing makeup for yourself, and yeah, I know that's part (or most) of it for a lot of women. I guess a lot of it is just fond memories I have of the handful of girls I'm thinking of, all of whom were... obsessive, about something or other. They had so much going on in their lives, that taking care of themselves didn't always fit in there - forget makeup, they'd skip eating/sleeping. Not the healthiest trait in the world, but interesting, and gave me a way to be useful.

Wide generalizations tend to not go over well in here; I'd wager you've missed out on a lot of really great girls because of this assumption.

I've said this before, but it seems to be sort of a difficult point to get through; I don't look at a woman, see she's wearing makeup, and think "Eh, not for me; ignoring now." But, if I see a woman who doesn't wear makeup, I'm more likely to think "I should try to get to know her." I can't get to know every woman I meet - have to make the choice based on something, right?

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