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conforms K. original L. subjective M. apply N. measurements O. expose The confusing pursuit of beauty When a woman asks a man how she looks, it is very difficult for him to come up with the right answer. Men do not think of their looks in the same way as women do. They stick to an opinion and like to think of themselves as average-looking. They don’t 1) ______ much value to their looks. However, women tend to think their appearance is “not good enough”. They would 2) _______ the smallest imperfections in their bodies. The differences between how men and women view their own looks are caused by complex 3) _______ and societal factors. First, men and women have different childhood experiences with toys. Girls’ dolls have slim figures whose physical 4) _______ are impossible for living human beings to achieve while boys’ toys are weird-looking. Second, beauty industry 5)_______ different influences on them. Women are 6) ______ that they must buy the newest beauty products and 7) ______ 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 8) ______ of the details, but women spend great efforts on details of appearance only to 9) ______ themselves to criticisms by other women. Anyway, to get back to my 10) ______ point: There is no easy way for a man to answer a woman’s question of how she looks.