This week's post is about Ugly Ducklings, Weird Ducklings and Gross Grapes -- a  concern that's been popping up with some frequency as of late in the Guyspeak inbox. I'm not sure if people's friends are getting hotter or self esteem is waning as we enter the summer months. 

Either way, here's the hard truth: not all ducks and grapes are created equally. At one or many points in your life, you will find yourself in a gaggle of girls or guys and realize "hot damn, I very well might be the least attractive person here."

Does that suck? Sure. Is beauty in the eye of the beholder? No doubt. But on the whole, we all generally conform to what's hot or handsome. Though, having said that, how can I or anyone possibly explain this People cover.

Now the good news is, for every time you find yourself the Ugly Betty, there are countless other times you are (unknowingly) one of the Betty Drapers in the gaggle. You yourself are being perceived as a member of the  beauty bunch while some isolated sadling is feeling the uglies.

My point is not to find uglier friends, or insist your pals wear Crocs and burqas when you go out with them, but, that we must learn tot ake it in stride. We must appreciate the times we are feeling beautiful and not bully ourselves on the nights we are standing next to Penelope Cruz or George Clooney.

What's more, the best look you got is the look of feeling comfortable and sexy in your own skin. That's "hot" and way more alluring over a few minute conversation, than some self-involved bombshell checking her cheekbones in the bar mirror every 10 seconds. 
Lastly, remember this fact: 9 out of 10 times, the smokin' hot dude who rolls up to the bar all Tyrese-John Mayer-Zoolander, is a total dud - the wackest duck of them all.  Let him put another "bombshell" feather in his cap.

There are plenty of fly birds and beautiful fruit in the sea.