It's unfair to imply that a guy asking in a situation where the answer may be a no is creepy. It's unfair to imply that a guy can always know. This is just plain unfair, and silly. But if you ask someone out in the workplace and she says no that gets super uncomfortable for everyone.

A very common trope, particularly in animation and sitcoms, is for a woman to be far more attractive than her significant other. This is largely a result of Hollywood-style casting for women's roles in which average-looking women are virtually unknown, leaving a large number of hotties needing work. Therefore even Hollywood Homely women who aren't supposed to be gorgeous are portrayed by supermodel-class women. Similar cases are almost unheard of for men. Since "average joes" and "funny fat guys" can still get work especially when they're the producer as well as the lead , this pervades almost all forms of media, making this one of the most wide-spread cases of a Double Standard around.

Then celebrate because, while it may not seem like it on the surface, you are going to have a much happier life than the hapless woman who snapped up the Adonis lookalike. Ugly men, according to research published this week, are a safe bet when it comes to love. So Sienna Miller is a lucky girl to be dating lanky lover Rhys Ifans.