I don't believe in it, but it's a cultural issue, I live in Latin America, where drug trafficking is extremely powerful and plays an important role in the constitution of society, especially among the poor
I know very well how much an ugly guy who just by emulating the way of a drug dealer will be able to have pussy
He doesn't even need to be necessarily involved and he doesn't need to have anything else either, memories of youth
If the guy is really involved in crime then it's even worse, he can be as deformed as he wants, manlet, he can do whatever he wants with women, they allow it and go after him
Limiting the whole world to appearance, it's a good meme, but you can't treat it as science, there are serious discussions in itself whether any social science can be considered science, imagine such bizarre statements without any in-depth study
I mean, I'm quite a lookist, for me, appearance does decide your life.