Men primarily select for beauty, while women select for other things
Idk about that. Any high class club or bar in America will have That One Guy with a sorority’s worth of women just hanging off him.
Also, men will fixate on beauty. But they routinely select for compatibility and accessibility. Guys pair up with girls who are interested in them. And finding a woman who reflects your own interests and passions is as much of the dating game as looking good. The standard for physical beauty is highly relative, such that the cutest girl in the computer science lounge probably won’t look anything like a Vogue Cover Model but will still have a hive of anxious, sweaty, love-struck co-eds hovering around them.
women are essentially selectively bred for beauty
Beauty standards are all over the map. Read your Freud. Straight men tend to gravitate towards women who remind them of their childhood primary caretakers (ie, mom). Women aren’t “selectively bred” for anything. They reproduce a cohort of young men who adopt the beauty standards established by their elders.
It is not women who change to reflect male tastes but men who change to reflect female appearance.
Where you see this pattern go off the rails is among latchkey kids who are exposed to mass media and denied access to a large cohort of IRL caregivers. When TV raises your kids, they’re going to grow up to believe Women On TV are what women should look like. But then beauty standards are established by TV production companies, not natural selection.
Idk about that. Any high class club or bar in America will have That One Guy with a sorority’s worth of women just hanging off him.
Also, men will fixate on beauty. But they routinely select for compatibility and accessibility. Guys pair up with girls who are interested in them. And finding a woman who reflects your own interests and passions is as much of the dating game as looking good. The standard for physical beauty is highly relative, such that the cutest girl in the computer science lounge probably won’t look anything like a Vogue Cover Model but will still have a hive of anxious, sweaty, love-struck co-eds hovering around them.
Beauty standards are all over the map. Read your Freud. Straight men tend to gravitate towards women who remind them of their childhood primary caretakers (ie, mom). Women aren’t “selectively bred” for anything. They reproduce a cohort of young men who adopt the beauty standards established by their elders.
It is not women who change to reflect male tastes but men who change to reflect female appearance.
Where you see this pattern go off the rails is among latchkey kids who are exposed to mass media and denied access to a large cohort of IRL caregivers. When TV raises your kids, they’re going to grow up to believe Women On TV are what women should look like. But then beauty standards are established by TV production companies, not natural selection.