06.10.01
Matty told me that he put up a picture at hotornot, as have quite a few of my friends, so I decide that since all of the really cool people were doing it, I should too.
Hotornot is a website that the men and women of the world can access, in order to rate pictures of people that have sent images in for critique. The best fun is using it and some sort of instant messaging system with a friend who is also looking at hotornot. That way you can send each other urls of really ugly or ultra-tasty people, and make fun or drool over the pictures.
There is this curious system by which males who are of an average or better appearance get voted ridiculously high. Matty, who is of course a stellar example of male physicality and good looks, ranked something in the 9+ area, 9.1 I believe, (on a scale of 1-10) while he's probably more like a 7.5 to 8*. Matty being the general exception to the rule mind you, as long as you have a penis and aren't something that should be locked in the basement so as not to frighten the neighborhood children with your hideously grotesque visage, you get a 5+. Moreso if you show some skin.
The same holds true with women, only more sinisterly. Truly, truly unattractive women with nice bodies get 8's, with some that you can't even make out facial features -- but you can make out the bikini -- rate 9's or better. The secret to being a highly-ranked female on hotornot is to be moderately attractive (not be a potential basement dweller), show yourself from at least the torso up, preferably have big boobs and a coquettish grin, and not have a penis.
Boys get up to 200 votes. Girls get 3k+. It's a strange system.
I myself, have only a picture from the shoulders up, don't have big boobs, and am a comfortable 7.something. I originally had a picture up in color, but for some reason the image came out really cool-toned, so I looked oddly pink. I was in the 6.4 - 6.5 zone, with someone actually giving me a 1. I changed it to a contrasty black-and-white of the same image, and I'm a full point higher.
This says something about our culture today, I'm sure.
*Hey, he said so himself.
