Japanese women asked whether they would sooner marry an really ugly rich man or a poor yet handsome stud give a rather one-sided response…
No less than 79% of the women responding opted for the ugly rich man, and a mere 21% for the poor Adonis.
An unrepresentative smattering of their responses:
“You can’t eat on love alone!”
“A hot guy with no cash isn’t trying hard enough!”
“Without any cash the strain of life soon erodes any romance.”
“Their sense of values is more important than either.”
“I’m an ugly so I’ll take whatever I can get!”
“Poverty is crushing.”
“I don’t really feel a hot guy to be that much of a catch anyway.”
“Put next to a really hot guy I’d be worried about what people would say about me…”
“Get a rich guy and you can use his money to call over a hot stud while he’s at work all day – problem solved.”
These results are of course far from unprecedented…
2ch, reputed to be both ugly and poor, is especially put out by all this pragmatism at their expense:
“So cash is all that matters, you filthy sows!”
“So they’ll just marry a rich guy and have an affair with a hot one then?”
“That’s marriage for you.”
“The opinions all sound like those of 30+ hags…”
“What women are calling ‘ugly’ here is what everyone else would call ‘average’ though.”
“Well, they are right. A man’s looks fade through the years…”
“For anyone who marries a really ugly guy, rich or not, adultery is the norm.”
“Marriage for love is dead then?”
“With sufficient funds you can pretty much fix most cases of not being cool though…”
“Ask the same of men: 1% = totally ugly but loaded, 99% = gorgeous but poor as a church mouse.”
“What fools these women are – they think they become wealthy by marrying a wealthy man.”
“Why can’t these women get rich themselves and then support their own really hot poor guy?”
“You can always marry a rich ugly, divorce him, take half his money and then marry a hot guy.”
“You guys are not different. They pick based on money, you pick based on sex appeal. Or would you all marry an ugly fat girl with a nice personality?”
“What a bitch – ‘You can’t eat on love alone!’ – they have no intention of earning a living do they?”
“I think in actuality a lot of rich ugly guys have trouble getting married whilst almost all the hot guys are spoken for.”
“Play around with nice guys until you’re 25, then find some ugly loser with no experience of love but a fat purse and bilk him into marrying you – it’s the right choice.”
“You can’t live off your face after all.”
“Can’t be helped. A man’s worth is money, a woman’s is youth.”
“Something like this:
$120k+ salary = 18-year-old girl
$100k+ salary = 20-year-old woman
$80k+ salary = 25-year-oldwoman
$50k+ salary = 30-year-oldwoman
$25k+ salary = 35-year-old woman
Unemployed = 40-year-old woman”
“Having money is proof of your vitality so it’s only natural it would be the major criterion for marriage.”
“Try posing the same question with a photograph and I think the answer will differ…”
“So the husband is just an ATM…”
“You guys are lucky – you’ve a new motivation to work!”
“You keep on about equality and independence but when it comes down to it you want to be supported. Just come out and say you want to parasitise someone…”
“What a crude bunch, only interested in money. These are the women who are going to get discarded when they age…”
“All you ugly paupers sure are weeping right now, eh?”
“You can always marry a rich ugly, divorce him, take half his money and then marry a hot guy.”
And then the hot guy will divorce you and take half of your money.
What you give is what you get. Karma will always find its way back.
BUT! However, there’s only 500 votes in total. (If you click on the 79%) A survey that’s done on less than 1% of the population is absolutely useless. We should never judge an entire Nationality with such a limited amount of data.
Why is everyone so angry? So what they chose ugly but rich, either option is shallow.
Problem solved without any side effect?!?
What a SHORT_THING!?!
There was no “right” answer.
If you choose ugly rich man, you’re marrying for money.
If you choose hot poor man, you’re marrying for looks.
Both are frowned upon.
It was a trick question, designed to upset people, either side that came out the leader would have upset people. If the other side won, guys here would say “Oh, women only care for looks”.
A better question would be, a poor man who you love more than anything or a rich man who you truly can’t stand at all. At least that way there is a right answer.
“Without any cash the strain of life soon erodes any romance.”
money can buy anything