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[–]vintage201836 points37 points  (8 children) | Copy Link

a) females are hypergamous snobs; males are willing to look past educational credentials

and/or

b) females actually give a shit about characteristics beyond looks; males just want to pound pussy

[–]SophisticatedBean[S] 21 points22 points  (3 children) | Copy Link

This should be seen in the context that "male subjects (super)liked 61.9% of the female evaluated profiles, while female subjects (super)liked only 4.5% of the male evaluated profiles." (from the same paper).

Women are only willing to take education status into account once the man in question has passed the initial evaluation for looks and they are about as choosy about looks as males (if not more). Women just much less often find looks alone attractive, hell, they rarely feel very much attraction to males at all (except for the ones with highest status or exceptionally attractive ones). They rather wait for men to approach them and then the most dominant man prevails. They merely steer this process to get attraction from high status men. (That's why girls cheer for attention at music performances and boys don't.)

So a) is mostly true, but b) should be rather "first females are snobs about looks and then they are snobs about personality; males more likely settle for whatever they get to reproduce".

[–]look_in_the_mirror3 points4 points  (0 children) | Copy Link

That cheering part blew my mind.

[–]whatwasthatcat1 point2 points  (1 child) | Copy Link

It depends on the age of the woman. If she is young, so like roughly under 25, then she doesn't give a fuck about education, it is 100% about looks. If she is roughly over 25, and she is looking for a long term relationship, then she chooses a guy based on a formula that incorporates both looks and money/job status, the richer/higher status job he has, the more forgiving she is in regards to looks. However, the only natural/evolutionary/biological part of this is formula is the looks part: women are naturally NOT attracted to money/job status, simply because these things are very recent phenomenons in humans, and it has not been long enough to make it a natural evolutionary behaviour. When a woman chooses a high status job/rich male, it is NOT because she is "attracted" to him: she is making a RATIONAL NON-SEXUAL NON-ROMANTIC choice to benefit herself. The ONLY primitive/evolutionary/biological partner selection method of females is physical attraction: how alpha does he look (muscles, height, alpha facial features such as square jaw and piercing eyes). Basically, the ONLY thing that matters: how alpha caveman hunky wild male looking is he: if a lot, that means she wants to pass down his genes. If not enough, she doesn't wanna pass down his genes. The whole "money" thing is a MODERN, NON-EVOLUTIONARY, NON-SEXUAL/ROMANTIC phenomenon. Even a good looking young guy can date an older unattractive rich woman, that does NOT mean that he is doing this from an evolutionary perspective, it has NOTHING to do with love/romance/relationships. It would be like accepting a job for money. It has nothing to do with romance/relationships/attraction/love.

This is because long term relationships are not a natural/evolutionary thing. Evolutionary speaking, men and women are both hardwired to simply have sex and make babies. Long term relationships are not natural, they were invented by society (and for good reasons, but that is not what we are discussing right now). The only difference is that women place more emphasis on QUANTITY over QUALITY, and men are the exact opposite, they put more emphasis on QUALITY over QUANTITY. But neither men or women, from an evolutionary point of view, naturally choose partners based on an assessment of how good of a "long term partner" he/she will be. They ONLY choose based on "how good of genes would that person of the opposite sex give my offspring?" During sex, oxytocin is produced, and THIS is where "love" comes from, it is basically a hormone that is released in order to, AT THIS STAGE (remember, at THIS stage, NOT at the partner selection stage, partner selection was ALREADY done and it used ONLY LOOKS to be determined), make a bond between the couple in order for them to stay together until the baby is old enough, at which point both partners go off their separate ways and make more babies with other people. The fact that Oxycontin is released DURING sex proves that nature does NOT intend for women to think of a man's "long term potential" at the PARTNER SELECTION time. Again, ONLY looks determines that.

[–]SophisticatedBean[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children) | Copy Link

Right, men can make up for many points in physical attractiveness by resources… within bounds. However, females remain the more choosy sex across the lifespan, so even though women might put, say, 80% weight on looks and 20% on resources, and men put 100% weight on looks, it holds true that women are 125% as choosy, so in effect they care 100% about looks and 25% about resources in addition to that. An ugly face will elicit disgust in a female as much (if not more) as it does in males.

[–]BLZNWZRD10 points11 points  (0 children) | Copy Link

b) females actually give a shit about characteristics beyond looks;

Aka, does he have 6 degrees, 6 figures, 6 car garage etc.. Does height count for looks? Women have made it clear that us fella under 6' are barely men these days.

[–]ErnestJoe6 points7 points  (0 children) | Copy Link

I’m gonna go with A

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children) | Copy Link

Going for B on this one tbh. If I wasn't completely ruled by my dick's wishes I would probably have standards like that as well.

[–]1337warrior1 point2 points  (0 children) | Copy Link

One vote for A, but add the last part of B.

[–]Kondijote2 points3 points  (1 child) | Copy Link

What about European women who go to poor African countries to have sex with younger men?

[–]vintage20186 points7 points  (0 children) | Copy Link

I only read an article about those women, but it gave an impression that they were fairly wealthy...and older. Cougars, basically. That's all I remember, so this is just me connecting the dots, but they were probably bored with the standard fare and started hungering for the novel. Throw in the masculine yet subservient element of the 3rd world men and...voila?

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