Surely it was a man talking about women.
Because that's an old-time favourite of mine.
I've had that discussion with several (male) teenagers along the years:
- Oh, no, not that girl, she's so ugly/fat/has pimples/small boobs/...
- Who do you think you are? A supermodel?
I'm with you, it's not nice criticizing someone's appearence.
But when someone who takes a lot of care in looking handsome criticizes others at least the judgement makes sense (it's just rude and unkind) but if they do not then it's plain ridiculous.
And I've often seen men/guys talking despectively of women/girls looks, while they apparently don't care a shit about their own looks!