Corrollary to Physical Beauty

This posting serves as a corollary to a posting from 2014.  Find it here.

I've often thought, and even occasionally commented, that a remarkably beautiful woman is likely to be utterly vapid and uninteresting.  It seems to me that a person, especially a woman, who can rely on her physical charm and attractiveness will not develop the same depth of personality as a person, especially a woman, who is forced to cope with life’s challenges without the aid of beauty.  Not only does such a person face the obvious impediments to coupling that characterize the frustrated romances of us mere mortals, which has certainly given me a depth of personality to match the depth of my emotional scarring, but such a person also has to deal with life's non-romantic challenges without the near-universal tools of overt and implied sexuality.

Is depth of personality an attribute directly related to attractiveness?  Or can a woman with no psychological baggage whatsoever be as intriguing as an equally physically attractive woman with a more three-dimensional character?  I think my personal preference runs to the more “developed” personalities, although my experience with women is limited, and with attractive women much more so.

This train of thought led me to another interesting consideration.  Are certain major personality traits correlated with physical desirability? For instance, is an exceedingly handsome young man less likely to voluntarily risk physical damage than a young man whose looks have never served his interests?  Male military courage is clearly more prevalent in some men than others, and I’ve no doubt that there are many factors which determine its presence or absence, but I wonder if the physically attractive are somewhat more loathe to risk death and dismemberment than the more homely among us.  Especially considering the prevailing idea that young men behave as though they believe they are invincible, or at least they don't seem to seriously consider the possibility of death.

So I submit that amongst young men who are afflicted with this fearlessness of death, but who are keenly aware of the likelihood of mutilation, the handsome ones have much more to lose in a risky situation (such as combat) than do their less-handsome peers.  Furthermore, a handsome young man who is mutilated probably becomes less attractive to the female gender, but an unattractive young man may actually experience an increase in his sexual appeal from certain scars and injuries (although certainly not from all).  A handsome face which becomes scarred is seen as a tragedy, but a homely face that becomes scarred carries an air of danger, adventure, toughness, etc., all of which may be attractors of certain women.

Any thoughts or experiences to share?