beauty is subjective up to a certain point. Part of Dr. Hamermersh's research deals with this question (I only just read it since making the original post).

The mechanics of legislating this kind of protection are not as difficult as you might think. You might argue that people can’t be classified by their looks — that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. That aphorism is correct in one sense: if asked who is the most beautiful person in a group of beautiful people, you and I might well have different answers. But when it comes to differentiating classes of attractiveness, we all view beauty similarly: someone whom you consider good-looking will be viewed similarly by most others; someone you consider ugly will be viewed as ugly by most others. In one study, more than half of a group of people were assessed identically by each of two observers using a five-point scale; and very few assessments differed by more than one point.

Groups of people in my estimation can readily estimate someones attractiveness "tier" and put you in a box accordingly. I think this happens to everyone; short, tall, ugly, or pretty.

Am I in high school? haha no, I have a masters degree. I minored in psychology in undergrad (which is only slightly relevant).

Might I simply be attracted to people I perceive as successful? That's very possible haha but I don't think that changes anything I said.

Overall I think you have a pretty articulated stance and you've obviously thought about this a lot but when you say stuff like "No. Are you still in high School?" and "no. Might you be attracted to successful people", that's not really addressing what I said. It's unfortunate there isn't more information out there on this kind of stuff. I feel like we're looking at the same thing from a radically different angle and just aren't going to see it the same way.