Independent.ie – EN – The Hospital Group
There are not many of us, male or female, who are blessed with the facial beauty of a Jaye Davidson (Dil in Neil Jordan’s The Crying Game). As a woman Jaye was good-looking, but as a man he was beautiful — the same face, of course, but our perception of that face on the body of a man was different. We assign a higher standard of beauty to women.
This is perhaps one of the reasons why both heterosexual men and women prefer to look at female bodies and faces — they are closer to our ideal of perfect beauty. Women are, to put it bluntly, expected to be better-looking than men.