Not all women are created equal in a man’s eyes. And despite what most women think, we’re actually more complex than the simple binary of “I’d fuck her/I wouldn’t fuck her.” No!, men evaluate women they’re interested in a hierarchy or a pyramid, each level presenting specific standards and qualifications, and if a woman meets those standards and qualifications, then the relationship between him and her evolves to a higher (or deeper) level and his willingness to commit increases proportionately.
The first level of the pyramid is a purely physical one. But a man’s qualifications for a woman progresses from there to determine whether she is “dating material” followed by “girlfriend material” and finally “wife material.” The major difference between men and women in this regard is that women are typically unable to separate these different materials or statuses. For instance, if she’s willing to sleep with a guy, she generally (and I'm not saying all the time) needs to feel like there’s potential for the relationship to reach a higher level. Whereas men, if she’s good enough to fuck, but not good enough to date, we don’t mind.
Level 1: One Night Stand Sex Qualification — Physical Looks (Bare Minimum) – There’s a certain level of physical beauty that a woman must meet for a man to be willing to have sex with her even once. The criteria for one night stand sex is obviously going to be lower than it would be for any sort of relationship consideration, and studies have shown widely that men have an uncanny ability to lower their standards for one night and one night only given the proper circumstances. (Big booty; horrible face! Nice Titties, No ass! Etc)
We’ve all been there. And I imagine most of us even underestimate how far we’re willing to lower the bar given the right situation. You’re drunk. She’s buying you drinks. You haven’t had sex in a month. Your ex just started dating some bitch nigga. Suddenly sex with the ratchet chick flirting with you doesn’t sound like such a bad idea.
Obviously this criteria is not only going to vary widely from guy to guy (we all have that friend who will take home just about anything), but will also vary depending on where you are in your life and how desperate (or drunk) you are at the time. But regardless, when it comes to the bare minimum qualifications for a one-time-only deal, they’re always going to be lower than they would be otherwise.
Level 2: Casual Sex Qualification — Physical Looks (Standard) – The next level of the pyramid basically eliminates any female other than the ones you find attractive enough to have sex with repeatedly. If you glance at women’s magazines, it continues to boggle my mind how they continue to peddle the crap advice that explains the reasons a guy doesn’t call a girl back is because she wasn’t assertive enough, or because she didn't hold out long enought, or because the sex wasn't good. Sorry ladies, but you probably need to lose 10 pounds. It’s sad but true. I have gone out with quite a number of very cool, very fun and very smart girls, slept with them, and then never called them back because they did not meet the Level 2 criteria for me. Sorry. I’m a guy. It may seem shallow, but we’re all wired that way. Unless you’re hot, we’re not even considering anything else. You could be a French chef, curing cancer and give the world’s best full-body massages… but if you're not in shape, and keep your body right, then it’s a no-go. Men want to be around the girl with the bomb shape, the big booty, the cute face, the nice titties. Not the girl with the stomach, because she doesn't believe in sweating her edges out at the gym. It’s the harsh truth, and any honest man will agree.
The girls who meet the Level 2 Qualification qualify as any girl who we will repeatedly fuck with. So this is where fuck buddy status, or friends with benefits comes into play (more on that on the next level). It’s great to have these girls around (sexually!) but if we lose a Level 2 girl, we never lose any sleep over it. It’s just on to the next one literally!
*** Note about Looks: Once a girl meets Level 2 qualification, the higher levels of the pyramid revolve around traits other than physical looks. But it should be noted that the better a woman’s physical looks, the lower the criteria for Levels 3-5 will be. A girl who is just on the verge of qualifying for Level 2 looks-wise will have to really ace the Levels 3-5 to get a guy to commit (especially for a long period of time). Sadly, if a girl is bomb as hell, guys will be less stringent about the higher qualifications and larger personality or emotional flaws will be tolerated. Obviously, again, this is sad and shallow, but it’s true. Some guys will put up with more bullshit than others, but I truly believe that a girl’s beauty unconsciously affects our willingness to compromise in the mental and emotional realms. We can’t help it. We love beautiful women. And our perspective and objectivity goes out the window a bit when they’re around. Obviously, the less experienced and less confident a guy is, the more he’ll be affected by this. But no man is 100% immune. Once again, it comes back to the unfortunate truth that the best thing a woman can do to improve her love life is to increase her looks.
Level 3: Dating Qualification — Personality – So you’ve met a fine ass girl. You’d totally smash her. And you’d not only smash her, but you’d smash her a lot. The next differentiation for men is personality. And this first non-physicality criteria is a pretty low one: i.e., is she fun/cool to hang out with and talk to. That’s it. Do we like to sit around and talk to her? Do we enjoy watching TV or a movie with her? If a girl is a pain in the ass, too dramatic, dumb and/or annoying, a total bore, a guy will put her on his “booty call list” more or less permanently and repel any and every attempt or hint she makes at taking the relationship further.
But if she is fun to hang out with and talk to, then she will qualify for “dating” status. The dating status is basically what it sounds like: that vague period in the first few months where two people are “seeing each other” but not “really serious” yet. You probably hang out a few times a week — and by hang out I mean actually hang out and do stuff instead of just get drunk and have sex — you enjoy each other’s company and may even sleep over each other's spot.
If she’s not cool or not fun to hang out with, the man’s tolerance will vary widely, depending on his personality, experience and confidence. A guy who lacks experience or confidence may get dragged along by the inertia of the sex and be afraid to turn down the girl’s advances for a relationship. Guys with more experience or guys who are even a bit jaded may get bored and even though the girl isn’t annoying or bad, just stop calling her after a month or two for no other reason than that she isn’t spectacularly interesting.
Level 4: Committed Relationship Qualification — Emotional Connection – Generally, girls who have met the “Dating” criteria, after 1-3 months will begin pushing for a committed relationship. Despite the genuineness about it, these pleas are probably more biological than personal. Women are wired to grow emotionally attached to men they sleep with consistently and to seek commitment from them.
Whether a man will commit or not depends on the level of emotional connection with the girl. The interesting thing that I’ve found over the years is that girls where there is a very strong emotional connection AT THE BEGINNING of the interaction, tend to fizzle out fairly quickly with the man moving onto other women. The women who usually end up making it as a girlfriend, the emotional connection slowly grows over the Dating Period of the first 1-3 months, and by the time the girl starts pushing for the commitment, the guy — whether he’s consciously looking for a girlfriend or not — will intuitively know, in his gut, whether he’s going to end up committing or not. Some guys fight it off and prolong the dating period as long as possible, while others are willing to hop into a committed relationship with enthusiasm. If I could give another piece of advice to women, it would be, "to not push for commitment so early". For men, it must grow organically over a certain period of time. Sure, he may never come around and you will have wasted your time in the end. But the only men who are going to be willing to commit to a girl within a couple of weeks are going to be men you wouldn’t want to date anyway.
Regardless of how it emerges, the Level 4 girls are the girlfriends. Relatively few emerge throughout a man’s life, even if he’s well-experienced and been dating a long time. I’ve met maybe 10 girls who qualified for this level in my life and actually committed to 2 of them for a significant period of time (more than a few months). The signs of genuine emotional connection emerging can be read about here.
Again, lesser experienced guys will foster emotional attachment far easier than their more jaded and experienced ones. Same goes once again for a lack of confidence. Sometimes emotional connections can emerge out of unhealthy interactions and two people with pathologies or serious self-esteem issues. Two people who start seeing each other and immediately erupt in all sorts of unnecessary drama can often create a synthetic emotional connection that is actually not very healthy or genuine. It’s a connection built on psychological weaknesses, not emotional strengths. This is, again, while working on oneself and self-improvement is often the best thing you can do for your future relationships, man or woman.
Level 5: Long-Term Commitment Qualification — Lifestyle Compatibility – Oh, logistics, how you always rear your ugly head. Although compatibility is slightly different than straight logistics, they’re surprisingly similar. Around the 2-3 year point of a relationship, two people begin to seriously consider the plausible long-term possibilities with one another. What used to be minor factors may suddenly become more important. For instance, her family situation, your career aspirations, lifestyle preferences, the fact that you travel twice a month for work — stuff like that. Factors that in the first year of the relationship seem like nuisances or petty frustrations, in the face of analyzing multi-year or multi-decade potential for the relationship, can morph into make-or-break propositions.
For a man, consciously or not, I believe he begins to look at his girlfriend’s traits that would make her a good/bad mother or wife. If she communicates poorly, handles conflict poorly, is irresponsible at times, lives unhealthily or behaves negligently at times, these stop being cute idiosyncrasies that her boyfriend laughs at and become potential deal-breakers which worry him. Throw on the fact that she considers herself a detective, when you want to have some you time! and her mother hates you, and the long-term implications are getting messier.
What this really comes down to though are two things: aligned values, and aligned life goals. The values are important because despite whatever fights, disagreements, or arguments you have down the road (and you will have many), you need a bedrock of shared moral values and worldviews to fall back upon. I don’t mean superficial stuff like “she believes in wealth redistribution and I believe in deregulation.” I mean stuff like self-improvement, charity, social beliefs, social responsibility, etc. If you’re both urban black hippies who smoke pot every day and don’t care if the other gets fired from their job, awesome; go for it. But if you believe strongly in charity and social responsibility, and she’s more interested in being rich and buying a nice car with money she doesn’t have, then you have a deep issue in personal values that may not be possible to reconcile.
Shared life goals means two life paths that are compatible with one another. If his life’s passion is to be an artist and he needs to live in certain environments and locales to accomplish that — meanwhile, she's climbing the corporate ladder at your local Fortune 500 company and she loves it. That may present itself as a legitimate divergence in life goals. Cultural differences can come into play here as well. It can get complicated and drawn out. In fact, many heinous break-ups occur when two people have met Level 4 criteria, but one decides the other does not meet their Level 5 criteria. The love and emotion is there, but the practicality, feasibility and compatibility is not. And the fall-out can become incredibly painful, if not traumatizing.
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