Guys love to rate girls on attractiveness.

We’ve got every­thing from the basic 10-​point scale to some pretty com­plex coör­di­nate sys­tems:

And we’re con­stantly cre­at­ing and dis­sem­i­nat­ing new ones because we’re afraid the “code” has been bro­ken. (If only we had hotty windtalk­ers.) I’m reminded of a quote from a TV show I saw a long time ago when two guys are rat­ing a par­tic­u­larly hot co-​worker. They agreed she was an 11. A third guy comes over and says he would rate her 8.5. The first two turn to him incred­u­lously and he explains, “I use the Richter scale.”

Of course, some scales (like the above graph) were cre­ated because guys felt the need for more infor­ma­tion that just appear­ances. Don’t hold your breath though, ladies, this added infor­ma­tion is usu­ally still pretty shal­low. Con­sider the Hot/​Crazy Scale or the Attractiveness/​Accessibility Scale. A while back, Jeremy J told me about the “Area Code” sys­tem, too.

We also try to make games of it. Will N intro­duced me to “Color/​Time/​Number”, where you name the color of the shirt, the clock direc­tion, and the attrac­tive­ness of a given target.

So now that you know all this, I wanted to ask… do girls have a rat­ing sys­tem? I’ve seen when two (or more) girls will spot a cute guy, share a know­ing glance with each other, gig­gle, and lean in to whis­per. What is it that you whis­per about? And is it in Gib­ber­ish?