The confusing pursuit of beauty           When a woman asks a man how she looks, it is very difficult for him to 1)___________ the right answer.     Men do not think of their looks in the same way as women do. They 2)________ an opinion and like to think of themselves as average-looking. They don’t  3)__________________ to their looks. However, women tend to think their appearance is “not good enough”. They would 4)_______ the smallest imperfections in their bodies.         The differences between how men and women view their own looks are caused by complex 5)____________ and societal factors. First, men and women have different childhood experiences with toys. Girls’ dolls have slim figures whose physical measurements are 6)_________ for living human beings to achieve while boys’ toys are weird-looking. Second, beauty industry exerts different influences on them. Women are 7)_________ that they must buy the newest beauty products and 8)_____ them carefully, whereas men are not influenced; they don’t face the societal 9)_____ purely on physical beauty. Men and women also have differences in care for details in women’s appearance. Men 10)_________________ the details, but women spend great efforts on details of appearance only to 11)_______ themselves to criticisms by other women.      Anyway, to get back to my 12)_______ point: There is no easy way for a man to answer a woman’s question of how she looks.