I agree with this to a point, and that is for initial attraction.
But if a man gets a chance to know a woman, at least sometimes, she “grows” on him.
Also, beauty is still subjective. Witness the article’s admission that some cultures like fat and some like thin. Obviously that is not “hard wired.”
I have seen some women I think are genuinely ugly (NO offense intended, but she can pout all the way to the bank) like Sarah Jessica Parker. If I looked like that I’d feel depressed. Yet she is a famous and apparently gorgeous movie star.
I have known some “Sarah Jessica Parkers” in real life who are apparently loved by good looking men with decent jobs.
Also I have known a handful of very heavy women who have husbands who are much better looking. And I’m not talking about women who got fat after the wedding but who were seriously fat to begin with.
I was just a skinny lad
Never knew no good from bad
But I knew love before I left my nursery, huh
Left alone with big fat fanny
She was such a naughty nanny
Heap big woman you made a bad boy out of me
A pretty face don't make no pretty heart
I learned that, buddy, from the start
In every situation I have been in ,with time and familiarity, the initially beautiful and ugly girls always moderate in their appeal.
Most women choose men, at least in part, based on their healthy appearance and ability to provide for their mate. Likewise, a man chooses a woman, at least in part, based on their healthy appearance and ability to bear children.
We’re hardwired to notice appearance, as are all sorts of species. It’s perfectly natural, although it can seem cruel to the unattractive who try to legislate it away.
Amy, you really have covered thus pretty well.
Feminists have hurt women in many ways. One older female friend of mine was a pretty lady, but a fairly hard-core feminist. Only in her later years, after she was past 40 or so (but she still looked great), did she come to realize that men weren’t out to hurt her. But by then she’d dated a gay guy for over ten years in a basically non-sexual relationship and a bunch of divorced men who were easy for her to use and turn down. She’s approaching 60 and has never been married and wishes she’d lived her life in an entirely different way.
She knew “nice” guys who would have, as she thought, tied her down, even though the ladies they married were/are still quite happy. But she went for the higher profile men and made sure they kept their distance.
She openly states the many ways the feminist movement’s bilge corrupted her and many others she’s known. She’s been pretty conservative for some years now, but her tastes are still fixed in the directions to which she was accustomed in many ways.
She still looks pretty good, and she’s pretty engaging, but she’s dated or knows all the guys in her city that amount to anything. Unfortunately, single, conservative Christian men are hard to come by at 57.
I hope the best for her, as she’s quite alone now after her parents and sister have passed on.
Feminism has helped lay waste to many lives as it has sought to undermine a country.
Men are visual.
Fact of life.
Feminist Naomi Wolf who famously had Al Gore dressed in earth tones and advised him to assume an Alpha Male personna . Oh, the irony.
THIS article needs PICTURES!!!
I? an American woman should learn something from French women? i don’t think so
Ugly women have their own club, it's called NOW.
Beauty is only skin deep, ugly goes clear to the bone.
author of “The Beauty Myth”:
Naomi Wolf Says Sarah Palin Is Part Of A Rove-Cheney-Bush Cabal
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Sexual arousal for men requires some stimulation, visually whatever. Men can’t fake it.
Ultimately, pretty is as pretty does.