An article in The Daily Mail claims that women want manners over looks when choosing Mr. Right. I’m hardly an expert on this, but I think it’s balderdash.
Although I hold the fairer sex in the highest regard –often against my better judgment — I have never heard of a group of women anywhere, at any time, in any place hiring a butler instead of a stripper for a bachelorette party. Manners simply cannot be that big of a turn on. Are they nice? Certainly. More important than looks? Certainly not.
Now I’m certain that this varies from woman to woman but I think women are attracted to success. It needn’t be money or any of that but a woman generally wants to know that you are good at whatever it is you do and that she, as well as your mother, isn’t the only one who thinks so.
I can also inform you, with a reasonable degree of certainty, that grumpy and bookish eccentrics who dress funny, lack small talk and are prone to saying outrageously insulting things by accident are not in the highest demand. We probably have a niche market but I have no idea where she is.
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