money and status would make a man more attractive to many women; men who really value a better romantic or sexual life should thus put more priority on money and status
It’s funny how discussing attraction in cold hard psychological terms gives rise to debate. I am a man and therefore hard-wired to look at breasts and hips and feet for cues about whether the woman in question is fertile and non-pregnant.
That is not graceful, I don’t even really meta-like it (of course I object-like it, I’m hard-wired to do so).
But that does not change the fact that I think of everyone as ‘humans’ or ‘persons’ before ‘men’ and ‘women’.
Now, in the same vein, going with sexual cue-theory, women are just as hard-wired to evaluate which men are wealthy/high status and thus better able to support a family.
That does not change the fact that I am neither wealthy nor high-status (but maybe just a bit suave) but still have a female partner in a stable relationship of mutual trust, dependence and love.
Can we stop discussing genetic mental architectures as if they offend us? Because genetic mental architectures sure as hell don’t care.
It’s funny how discussing attraction in cold hard psychological terms gives rise to debate. I am a man and therefore hard-wired to look at breasts and hips and feet for cues about whether the woman in question is fertile and non-pregnant.
That is not graceful, I don’t even really meta-like it (of course I object-like it, I’m hard-wired to do so).
But that does not change the fact that I think of everyone as ‘humans’ or ‘persons’ before ‘men’ and ‘women’.
Now, in the same vein, going with sexual cue-theory, women are just as hard-wired to evaluate which men are wealthy/high status and thus better able to support a family.
That does not change the fact that I am neither wealthy nor high-status (but maybe just a bit suave) but still have a female partner in a stable relationship of mutual trust, dependence and love.
Can we stop discussing genetic mental architectures as if they offend us? Because genetic mental architectures sure as hell don’t care.