My body is ready....

Why can’t it just be about loooove, mannnnn??

Yeah, women in their late 20s are more fertile than women in their late teens because their bodies are done developing (fertility peaks around 24/25 so a woman in her late 20s is also closer to her peak fertility)

You know that that study doesn’t prove that that behavior is “hardwired”, it just proved that that behavior exists, right?

Yup, they fetishize thinness, and super thinness, and especially if the woman in question is tall with very long arms and legs. I saw a married friend of mine lose his shit over such a woman. He thought she was gorgeous. Really, dude? She has an ordinary face, kind of pretty but not remarkably so, and his wife…

Ok. But my point, and I think the point of a lot of other women, is that there’s actually a divide between what people find attractive and what people want to have in order to consolidate their social status. The 36 - 24 -36 ratio might be the most attractive to the most number of men. But that doesn’t mean that those…

But that’s not a woman thing. That’s an everyone thing. No one wants to reproduce with, or even just emotionally invest, in someone without survival skills. Why are you making it a woman thing?

Yepppp. I’ve been the ‘secret girlfriend’ and even fell for the ‘shhh, we’ll just secretly hook up, it’ll just be between you and me so it’s romantic’ bullshit in my 20s. My first boyfriend broke up with me because he was ‘embarrassed to be seen with me in public’ and thought he deserved a thinner ‘more fit’ woman. Of…

Men are wired to respond to looks (signs of health and fertility),

Your post demonstrates exactly what is wrong with the way evo-bio is exploited by popular audiences. Ok. So people are motivated to pair up with the most attractive person possible. So health and wellness and vigor universally play into attractiveness. That’s all fine an good. None of that has anything, inherently, to…

Most of these studies that focus on romantic dating and the like ARE way heteronormative and it grinds my gears. Not all of us date only men, and I’m sure there’d be more interesting phenomena within the LGBT+ scene, to boot. (Or at the least it could de-mythologize the exoticism and/or stereotypes of the LGBT+…

Thiiis, At 120 I got hit on! And at 130 guys made me feel like I was lucky they were hitting on me. And freaking 130 is still incredibly thin, tbh. I could tell they were *actually* attracted to me, but wanted to make sure I knew they were making concessions since I’m not PERFECT. Were these men physically perfect?…

Honestly when I get dumped I go into a cycle of “all men suck” so it likely wouldn’t matter HOW attractive the dude was. If he was MORE attractive than the guy who dumped me, I’d think he was trolling me or something.

Yup. Tonight I’m going on a date with a man who attended an Ivy League college and probably has a wealthy background, which I’m judging not just by his school but other signifiers. In fact, I’ve dated a few men of this background, but I went to state schools and make much less than them. Why do they not care? Deep…

As with every study involving undergrads as the test subjects... I wonder what effect their age / maturity has on the study results. I remember being very looks-driven in college but, depending on the content of the profile, might no longer consider the “beefcake” the true catch. Did their profiles indicate their…