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To: cyborg
I meant to expand on my answer to you earlier, but shopping got in the way.

Women are attracted to what the authors of the article refer to as "power" and "accomplishment". In our time, women have been liberated (or whatever you want to call it) to become what they desire in men. A somewhat unexpected, but perfectly understandable, byproduct is the expectation of women who pay the price to acquire "power" or "accomplishments" that they will now be attractive to men, in the way that such men are attractive to women (and to these women in particular).

But of course, this is not so for the most part. These mens achievements are an aspect of their masculinity. Their masculinity is why they do the things they do.

To be attracted to themselves, in effect, is either narcissistic or homoerotic, but either way does not form the basis for a long-term successful heterosexual partnership.

Hence, the next step-"men have to change".

Except, no, they don't-and "change" so fundamental is utopian to the point of fantasy.

It's not that men are attracted to "weaker" women or "less accomplished" women. But men are not, for the most part, attracted to themselves (despite what you may read in the papers). The entire biological basis of sex is attraction to the other, and that's what the female partnership-track attorneys and doctors are not providing to most men.

285 posted on 12/23/2004 2:47:29 AM PST by Jim Noble (Colgate '72)
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To: Jim Noble
Very well put. Once a woman becomes a successful professional, a successful professional man is likely to see her as a rival, a colleague, or even a trusted friend, just as he would another man. But the chances he will view her as a complimentary "other" are slim - who she is would just intrude upon the space that who he is already fills up in his own life.
290 posted on 12/23/2004 7:20:01 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves
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