The Confusing Pursuit of Happiness When a woman asks a man how she looks, it is very d_________ for him to come up with the right answer. Men do not think of their looks in the same way as women do. They s______ to an opinion and like to think of themselves as average-looking. They don’t a_______ much value to their looks. However, women tend to think their appearance is “not good enough”. They would m________ the smallest imperfections in their bodies. The differences between how men and women view their own looks are caused by complex p____________ and societal factors. First, men and women have different childhood experiences with toys. Girls’ dolls have slim figures whose physical m__________ are impossible for living human beings to achieve while boys’ toys are w________-looking. Second, beauty industry exerts different influences on them. Women are c___________ that they must buy the newest beauty products and apply them carefully, whereas men are not influenced; they don’t face the societal focus purely on physical beauty. Men and women also have differences in care for details in women’s appearance. Men take no notice of the details, but women spend great efforts on details of appearance only to e__________ themselves to criticisms by other women. Anyway, to get back to my o_________ point: There is no easy way for a man to answer a woman’s question of how she looks.