We see male of any animal species is always more attractive than its female counterpart...name any bird or mammal and you know what I am talking about.

Why is it that in humans, we generally consider women to be more attractive and have words like cute, pretty, beautiful, gorgeous, ravishing, stunning, elegant etc. only used for them whereas attractive men are just 'handsome'?

Are we special as a species or is it just our perception?

I think your premise is faulty. Some species require "plumage" to find and attract a mate while the female is better served to remain as hidden as possible. In other species, it just doesn't matter much.

physically, objectively...yes some male animals have special "features", just as each specie has a different social structure from the other. one is not anymore special than the other.

I don't know how else to say it, your OP is crap...lmao!...First, SOME male animal species are more attractive than their female counterparts ...Second, who the hell is we?...When it comes to humans, it depends on who you ask...I'm pretty sure a homosexual male is going to feel men are more attractive...On the other hand, a lesbian might say women shine brighter...Now if you ask me, Ima tell you I just can't decide ...One minute I'm leaning toward men being more attractive .......Then I have a fight with my true love and I start noticing how gorgeous my neighbor's legs look as she jogs by my house the next morning ...It's a complicated world out there babe, filled with confusion and conflicting values ....My best answer to your question is, "Yeah...According to my third grade teacher, we are special as a species...

I agree that mostly the male is more colorful in birds/animals. My guess would be to attract a mate, for reproduction.
Pretty women? The same.
Special as a species? We are the top of species. Some believe we have the potential to become much more than we are now.

In most birds and mammals, seduction is a male forte and that's the reason males have enhanced features or attractive plumage to attract the female to mate.

If we follow the same trend, a big man with full grown beard and moustache should be considered the most attractive male..:-)

I am not sure you understand what's going on that well.
Men don't have the same filters in their head to keep the sex hormones from affecting it immediately and turning focus towards mating.
When a man see's an attractive women, it automatically makes him feel happy, good, pleased, and horny even if he doesn't go crazy about it.
In order to keep feeling that way, in order to fulfill what those pleasant feelings mean, he pursues the woman that makes him feel that way.

Human beings have a thing called civilization.

We've socially trained ourselves to equate saying "you aesthetically pleasing, me want humpy hump, and to then go humpy hump some other aesthetically pleasing person" to being an "a-hole."

"A-holes" tend to fail at attracting long term mates.

Calling someone "attractive" and "cute, pretty, beautiful, gorgeous, ravishing, stunning, elegant, etc." is the equivalent of word boners.

They are just socially acceptable and denote a larger vocabulary, and more intelligence.

All compliments like "handsome, cute, ravishing, stunning, gorgeous," are just shortcuts to "let's mate immediately and see what happens."
They're just more successful than whipping out a boner and chasing a woman around.

In all species you will find one gender is the aggressor towards making its intentions known.
Human beings just go about it in a "civilized" manner that maintains group cohesion. Because we are a herd/group species.


Both?


Hmmm...if only human males also peacocked in some other way.
Like if they bought cars, or flashed wealth in resources, or cologne, or power suits, or had pec implants, or went to the gym to develop muscles, or sought more powerful positions in society and bragged about it, or bought shoes with lifts, or erected phallic monuments, or came up with definitions to differentiate themselves like "alpha," or, "a-type," or "dominant," or, "pack leader."

Attractive men are "real" and strong, and hot, and handsome, and ripped, and rich, and powerful, cute, and striking, and masculine, and hunky, and alpha males, and McDreamy, and all sorts of terms.

Women are going to have a different vocabulary towards men, than men have for women. They react to each other differently, because their brains are affected differently by what drives them to mate.


Throughout history, sometimes they have been.
Same with robust or fat people.
Same with most athletic form.

As the a-holes adapt to adopt the most popular features as a means of tricking women, or the masses start being able to mimic those with the most resources and power, people change to exclude them, to come up with different things to represent what's "highest" and most "desirable," to differentiate themselves from their competition.

What makes human beings so "special" is our ability to adapt.
Our mating habits aren't going to be all that static.

In Most Birds, mammals, and reptiles the ratio of female far out weighs the male species..So therefore the male species need an edge to mate.

In human form thank god we have brains to give us the edge...Well we all have brains the problem lies into who chooses to use them and how.


Beauty is going to be subjective as to who is doing the viewing. IMO

^^^Yes, THIS IS QUITE ATTRACTIVE, to some, on different levels.

Like others have said, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and we as humans are the top "special" species. Yes, it does come down to a primal want/need for procreation, no matter what gender or species. However, IMO humans because we do have a brain and can think, we also want LOVE. Animals (i don't think) actually fall in love with one another like humans do.

I personally have called a man cute, handsome, beautiful, gorgeous...because they were. I have also been so humble as to admit when a beautiful woman crosses my path.

off topic......I know peeps think that seeing someone is the absolute first thing we need to "like" before liking someone (and ultimately falling in love), but for me, I can fall in love with a man by his words, attitude and compassion. Looks are simply a want...not a requirement in my book.

What about lovebirds? They fall in love.

Slightly off topic but I read somewhere the other day that Dolphins have names for each other.

They realised by the study's that when one make a certain sound the same dolphin will always answer to that sound, hence a name.

I wonder if there's a Dolphin Mingle

In most birds and mammals, seduction is a male forte and that's the reason males have enhanced features or attractive plumage to attract the female to mate.

yeah well, they also get to walk around naked. Which makes it easier to " enhance your plumage"

Both are beautiful...but as they say ...beauty is in the eyes of the beholder....I love to look at attractive people...but some may look nice on the outside but are the ugliest creatures where it really matters...sometimes a daisy can outshine a rose...

I think we're both ALMOST equally attractive,all I know is that women is the most beautiful creature on god earth,even though they get on our LAST nerve!!

Beauty is subjective in nature, it can't be defined in terms of male or female. Beauty lies in the eyes of beholder, for one a person might be every thing for another same person may mean nothing. every has its own perspective of beauty so it difficult to say whether male or female

You make alot of sense,but I give a little edge to the hunny buns though shhhhhhh,don't want to swell their heads lol

The woman is the obvious beauty. We also hold beauty pageants only for women. A woman is still highly valued for her beauty and is the only one who is valued this way. Men can be valued for their beauty but it is not a priority. A man is proud to have a beautiful wife more than anything else. Secondly, he will be proud to have an intelligent or educated wife. A man is primarily valued for his success and education, his looks are secondary in society.

The female form has curves, breasts, flaring hips, curved buttocks. This makes the female more attractive and appealing. She is the subject of most famous paintings and portraits.

A woman's body parts are neatly intact, not hanging out like the man's. This is another vast appeal.

op ...I look at it this way ... as using these birds for
instance ... beauty is in the eye of the beholder ... and a male can be as beautiful as a female ... have you heard the expression a beautiful soul... the male is the dark red and the females has less red ... are they not both beautiful ... least I think so ... but one could have a preference as to which is more beautiful ... but in the soul for some ...can be both ... as beautiful as the other...

^ Obviously, the bird in red is more beautiful. But enough about me...