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Men get an 'attractiveness boost' when other women fancy them — here's why
Business Insider ^ | January 31, 2018 | Lindsay Dodgson

Posted on 02/01/2018 6:20:23 AM PST by C19fan

People who are attracted to men have different tastes. Some think Dwayne Johnson is their perfect man, whereas others are a fan of Idris Elba or Prince William.

But however unique we think we are, new research suggests we're probably wired to copy each other's preferences.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: genderwars; psychology; sex
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1 posted on 02/01/2018 6:20:23 AM PST by C19fan
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To: MeganC

For your interest.


2 posted on 02/01/2018 6:21:07 AM PST by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: C19fan

So that’s how Weinstein got all those women.


3 posted on 02/01/2018 6:26:41 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (The remoulade was a trifle tart, but the souflee for dessert more than made up for it.)
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To: C19fan

I knew that when I was 18 and dating a French model. Never had so many women hit on me before or since.


4 posted on 02/01/2018 6:29:06 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: C19fan
Duh.

As a corollary, women don't dress for men, they dress for other women.

If they were dressing for men they wouldn't dress at all.

5 posted on 02/01/2018 6:29:40 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: C19fan

Alright, then explain Laz.


6 posted on 02/01/2018 6:38:01 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Angie Dickinson once said, “I dress for women, but I undress for men.”


7 posted on 02/01/2018 6:41:49 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (No DACA Caca....Send the Nightmares home.)
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To: C19fan

Women are genetically wired to want the high-status “Alpha Male”.

What defines a high-status male? He’s the one which lots of other women want, a man who women are willing to have sex with even if they do not see him committing to them.


8 posted on 02/01/2018 6:42:37 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (Big governent is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Take it from me, who loved fashion: women dress for themselves.


9 posted on 02/01/2018 6:43:07 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: C19fan
This is very true.

I've experienced it a number of times in my life.

After a while, I managed to 'play' this effect to great benefit.

10 posted on 02/01/2018 6:43:41 AM PST by blam
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To: C19fan

Took me years to understand this. All I knew was, when I didn’t have a girl, girls weren’t interested in me. The second I got a girl, other girls SUDDENLY liked me.

I finally learned to use this to my advantage when I realized that if you can get one girl in a group to like you, then they ALL will like you. So if I had my eye on a girl I knew was out of my league, I would just work on one of her closer friends who was not out of my league and get her to like me, and BOOM, the girl I wanted would start liking me too.

Another tidbit I FINALLY learned about women is to not worry if they were taken. I’m not talking married women, but women who had a dedicated beau. I learned that everybody breaks up sooner or later, so if I like a girl who was taken, I would just make her a “friend” and wait until she finally broke up with her guy.


11 posted on 02/01/2018 6:45:04 AM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (What profits a man if he gains the world yet loses his soul?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
As a corollary, women don't dress for men, they dress for other women.

More precisely, they are trying to signal to other women "I'm much more attractive than you, you cannot compete with me, so you might as well leave". So they really ARE dressing for men.

12 posted on 02/01/2018 6:45:36 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (Big governent is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: C19fan

Cliff’s notes: Women are herd animals. They tend to align.


13 posted on 02/01/2018 6:46:53 AM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (What profits a man if he gains the world yet loses his soul?)
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To: VTenigma; Gamecock; SaveFerris; FredZarguna; PROCON
I knew that when I was 18 and dating a French model. Never had so many women hit on me before or since.

There may be something to that.


14 posted on 02/01/2018 6:47:35 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Take Covfefe Ree Zig!)
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To: Yo-Yo; Lazamataz; bagster
Alright, then explain Laz.

Is this your way of making fun of Laz and Lazamatazm?

15 posted on 02/01/2018 6:50:25 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Take Covfefe Ree Zig!)
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To: C19fan

The opposite is also true. If you go to a nightclub and get rejected by a woman early in the night, you’ll might as go home. All the other women there will be able to smell that rejection on you all night and you’re out of luck.


16 posted on 02/01/2018 6:51:40 AM PST by MNDude
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To: Larry Lucido

I think he was just being Lazagorical.


17 posted on 02/01/2018 6:52:17 AM PST by bagster (Even bad men love their mamas.)
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To: MNDude
If you go to a nightclub and get rejected by a woman early in the night,

I've always wondered what that's like. Please explain.

18 posted on 02/01/2018 6:53:46 AM PST by bagster (Even bad men love their mamas.)
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To: bagster

Um, yeah, I .... thought so (goes to look up that word).


19 posted on 02/01/2018 6:58:32 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Take Covfefe Ree Zig!)
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To: C19fan

A little stank on your down-low...


20 posted on 02/01/2018 6:59:19 AM PST by dead
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