Dating criteria

I'm surprised so many people don't care about looks judging from this thread. It seems to be more the ladies than the guys, which I can sort of understand I guess. But for me, looks are actually super important. I wonder how you go about stepping up to someone and ask them out though?

Anyway, the two super-important things I look for in a girl are looks and shared taste/interests.

Looks doesn't necessarily mean she has to be a model or something, I go for buxom rather than bulimic, but I do want some level of physical beauty in my dates. I want to be able to be proud of her. I know that sounds really petty and selfish, but honest--I've dated someone who I was reluctant to introduce to my friends because of what she looked like, and that just doesn't work.

Secondly, similar taste to me. This is a really big deal to me, I have to date a girl that enjoys music a LOT and plays video games (or at least appreciates them), and generally likes modern technology and capitalism and shit like that. Once again this is something that I've come to learn over the years with experience. This one's troublesome though, it seems really hard to tell when you start dating whether someone really shares interests with you. At first it's all stuff you both like, like bands or movies or whatever. But that doesn't necessarily mean it will work out in the long run.

Intelligence isn't a huge deal to me I have to say, I am FAR from the smartest person in the world, so I don't feel like I should judge people on that too much, although there are limits I guess.

All the usual things (sense of humor, self-actualized, independent, mature) are all quite important too for that "ideal mate", but they're absolutely lower than those two main things on my list.

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