Certainly! If he’d said “women who might like me tend to also like …” I’d have understood. My confusion was because there was no such qualification, or anything else limiting the population under discussion beyond “women,” but the commenter seemed to expect consistency within that population.
The prevalence of different personality types in the population is very relevant here and you seem to be glossing over it.
I assumed he was saying something like “the majority of women prefer a man more ‘masculine’ than the median man”. By analogy, if it is true that “the majority of men prefer a woman who is slimmer than the median woman” it should be obvious that being overweight will make it harder for a woman to find a match even if there are men who prefer less slim women. Saying “men prefer slim women” is a slightly sloppy generalization but not an unreasonable one in this example.
We might be looking at different parts of the comment under discussion, because I’ve completely lost the correlation between what we’re talking about and what I actually read. At this point I’d rather just drop it.
Certainly! If he’d said “women who might like me tend to also like …” I’d have understood. My confusion was because there was no such qualification, or anything else limiting the population under discussion beyond “women,” but the commenter seemed to expect consistency within that population.
This is what I thought I was saying. :)
I assumed he was saying something like “the majority of women prefer a man more ‘masculine’ than the median man”. By analogy, if it is true that “the majority of men prefer a woman who is slimmer than the median woman” it should be obvious that being overweight will make it harder for a woman to find a match even if there are men who prefer less slim women. Saying “men prefer slim women” is a slightly sloppy generalization but not an unreasonable one in this example.
We might be looking at different parts of the comment under discussion, because I’ve completely lost the correlation between what we’re talking about and what I actually read. At this point I’d rather just drop it.