Monday, December 29, 2008

May I pour you one, dear?

Just ran across this Telegraph newspaper article about men vs. women and "beer goggles".

"Researchers found that women who drink even moderately develop a reduced ability to rate attractiveness in male faces, even when they are sober.

Those who drank were less able to detect male facial symmetry, a marker of attractiveness and good genes which is thought to play an important role in the choice of a partner.

Results show that the more alcohol the women had drunk during the previous six months, the lower her performance on the symmetry test.

Even women who had the equivalent of five drinks a month scored less in the test than those who had no drinks. Each additional drink led to a reduced score. "


Apparently while us guys wake up and smell the roses the next day women do not. Their so-called beer goggle effect just keeps on building up as time goes by.

Does this mean that as we men fall apart a little bit (speak for yourself) over the years with minor things like bald heads and beer bellies that our wives won't notice? A comforting thought, don't you think guys?

4 comments:

Manitoulin Threads said...

Great find...maybe nature designed it that way so all the men would't be alone in their senior years - LOL!

Murray said...

I'm certainly not going to complain. It's nice to have someone to grow old with! :-)

Anonymous said...

Thankfully my wife HATES beer, is that a good thing or bad???

Murray said...

I would recommend that you cater to her every whim and she may not notice any minor imperfections that pop up in the future. On the other hand, do you think an occasional glass of wine would work just as well?