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Oh, and a new pickup truck, too!
LOL.
Posted on 04/05/2006 10:11:16 AM PDT by iPod Shuffle
What women look for in a man
Wed Apr 5, 2006 4:47 PM BST164
LONDON (Reuters) - The old adage that women look for wealth in a man appears to be under threat after research on Wednesday showed women are starting to put physical attractiveness above solvency.
The shift is occurring because women have been freed from the constraints that previously dictated how they chose a mate as they increasingly control their own finances, the study said.
"We are seeing that women who have control over their finances are less concerned with the fiscal status of their potential mates and look more as to how attractive they may be," said one of the authors, Fhionna Moore from University of St Andrews.
The findings, to be published in Evolution and Human Behaviour journal, showed, however, that women who had low levels of financial independence still tended to rate a man's fiscal status above attractiveness.
Moore, a research student, found that as a woman's level of "resource control" changed, so did her preferences.
"It is the control and the independence the money gives rather than the absolute income level that appears to be the key predicting variable," she told Reuters.
An analysis of questionnaires returned by 1,851 heterosexual women aged between 18 and 35 showed women were able to change their attitudes relatively quickly in reaction to their changed financial status.
"We seem capable of changing our preferences in quite a short time which suggest environmental factors rather than inherent traits had a big impact in choice," she said.
"Women are quicker at adapting behaviour than previously thought," added Moore who is attached to the University's psychology department.
Blech. We'd be vegetarians if I had to deal with anything even mildly dead-animal like. Skinless, boneless chicken is okay :-).
The little one.
As a class....as a sex....as a group....yes, I can.
There are no "absolutes" except possibly death and/or logic.
Ahhh.
I was very, very lucky with my wife. Drop dead gorgeous, always smiling and laughing, an excellent cook and housekeeper, (but I helped alot), she was due to inherit somewhere between 500K and a mill, I treated her like the most precious jewel I could find.
She could have had any of a thousand other guys if she wanted, what she saw in me I still don't understand.
And she passed quite young, at 41. I still cry.
Guess I was pretty spoiled.
The cats take care of most of them for me. Thankfully.
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Oh, and a new pickup truck, too!
LOL.
Oh, man, you just made me shudder.
The spider or the shower?
This is a cockatoo who belongs to a friend that I'm 'rehabing'. She keeps plucking her feathers and then digging holes in her skin.
She's on Prozac even. And has a collar, but I took the collar off because I thought she was doing better, and WHAM she was a bloody mess in no time.
~~sigh~~
I'm a failure as a bird therapist.
Flawed conclusion. Take away the woman's ability to help support the family unit and the results will revert faster than this trait got somewhat sublimated.
Both...Spider first...then the shower...
You're blessed to have loved and been loved. :)
There are no absolutes, so you cannot say absolutely all women look for money first. You can say many do, some do, etc. but not all.
Yikes!
Nothing like a man with good horsemanship....
sorry!
It's that time of year unfotunately.
I make the husband do it.
ROFLOL!
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