The title is a bit broad and I obviously get that plenty of average/below average women are in happy relationships. I'm talking about your innermost feelings of potentially seeing someone stunning and wishing you were with them instead. It seems to me that most men (that I know) have the same type which is just as conventionally attractive as possible. I don't know a single man who would rather pick a girl with a hooked nose, small lips etc. than someone who looks like today's beauty standard. It seems to me that those who do are just being inauthentic and are settling.

This came to mind after I saw a pic of one of the prettiest girls I know - She's practically flawless and is a model and studies a field she likes in university - she is also a good person, just naturally fucking beautiful. Whenever I see her I feel like shit because why would anyone go for someone like me (average) when there's people like her that exist? The obvious answer is because someone like her would reject them so men just lower their standards and take what they can get. Do you actually like the more average women you meet or do you just subconsciously not try with the actually beautiful ones because you think you will get rejected? In my personal experience as a straight woman, I tend to go for guys that aren't conventionally attractive and it's because I truly find certain "off" features attractive - Not because I think I can't do better.On the other hand, I've always had the impression that men mostly like the same types of faces.

It also doesn't help that I live in a country where women are generally incredibly pretty so seeing these angel like model girls isn't that rare.