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Study Finds That Men Like Nice Women, But Not the Other Way Around
Newsweak ^ | 25JUL2014 | Paula Mejia

Posted on 07/29/2014 10:08:24 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine

Scientifically, nice (heterosexual) guys might actually finish last. A study published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin recently found that while men were attracted to nice-seeming women upon meeting them, women did not feel the same way about men. Researchers from the University of Rochester, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya in Israel investigated a possible mechanism explaining why women and men differ in their sexual reactions with receptive opposite-sex strangers.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: men; nice; women
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To: GeronL

They think he’s a wimp. That’s why they are non-plussed about nice guys.

They want a guy that will be there, but they also need to know that he’ll go into a bear cave if he has to.


21 posted on 07/29/2014 11:08:07 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

No surprise, this.


22 posted on 07/29/2014 11:18:33 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Free goodies for all -- Freedom for none.)
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To: Objective Scrutator
Guarantee that your wife will never have to work again, and you’ll attract the intelligent, conservative women. gold-diggers.

There. Fixed it for you. I shouldn't have to show ridiculous wealth to attract a wife and have children - ESPECIALLY in Obama's job climate!

23 posted on 07/29/2014 11:29:10 PM PDT by Yossarian
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To: miss marmelstein
Re: “Men - no matter how bad-looking or socially inept - will always seek out gorgeous women to date and marry. I mean, what’s up with that?”

For me, it's being truthful.

Why would I lie about my basic biology?

When I was 18, all of the women I thought were sexually attractive were under age 40.

Now, well into my 60’s, I feel exactly the same way.

I have no illusions that younger women find me attractive (but, as a life long runner, I do look a lot better than most guys my age).

However, I am not inclined to lie to the older women who do find me attractive.

Sorry for being me, but you will never take the “boy” out of this “old boy!”

24 posted on 07/29/2014 11:57:18 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Many men will choose “pretty” over “nice.” Pretty and bitchy wins over plain and nice. They will live to regret it, but looks trump all else for too many men.


25 posted on 07/29/2014 11:59:28 PM PDT by informavoracious (Open your eyes, people!)
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To: informavoracious

Why can’t the nice girls watch their weight and wear makeup?


26 posted on 07/30/2014 12:20:59 AM PDT by LT Brass Bancroft
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To: GeronL

“Apparently a lot of women need better taste.”

You didn’t stop to ask yourself why such a trend might have come about, or why it might be perpetuated. Sometimes there are very good reasons behind the existence of very bad things.

Human beings function with, among other things, basic constraints based on our biology. Aside from the fact that men and women are different, men and women also face different reproductive pressures and incentives. The same mating strategy that would work for a male would be disastrous for a female.

Look back on the last few thousand years of written history, and extrapolate those trends back through tens of thousands of years of pre-history. What happens to weak, effeminate men that build weak, effeminate societies? They’re eventually wiped out by stronger neighbors, yes? What do you think has happened to the women and families of weak, effeminate men?

Do you think tens of thousands of years of social, political, military and economic pressures have created an “incentive” for women to mate with beta males? Quite the opposite, there’s a very real emotional drive for a woman to choose a man capable of protecting her, providing for her, and ensuring that her offspring have all the safety and opportunity necessary to succeed. Frankly, “nice” isn’t a synonym for strong protector, provider, and when necessary dirty fighter and conniving procurer of all things necessary. More often “nice” is a synonym for “potential victim”.

It’s the most natural thing in the world for women to be sexually repulsed by meek, helpless men. It’s less potentially disastrous for a woman to mate with a capable ***hole than it is to hitch her genetic wagon to a girly boy that couldn’t possibly summon up the required courage and rage to kill when necessary. The world is not a nice, happy place — and nice, happy people tend to end up on the dinner menu.

Understand first that men and women are different. They have different needs, different emotional responses, different drives. Understand what makes women tick, what drives their most ancestral and primal emotional urges, and work with biology rather than against it. You’ll be happier, and your woman will be happier, if you understand that men should be men and women should be women.

My advice to young men would be to first, be men. Be unrepentant, self-confident, capable, assertive men. Your job in this life is not to be a girlfriend, your reason for existing is not to be a maid, your purpose is not to be what every nitwit feminist and halfwit talk show host “says” women want. Be hard. Be men.

My advice to young women would be to understand the difference between an ***hole and a capable, responsible, unrepentant man. There are a few men out there in the world that have what it takes to face any challenge, win when all the chips are on the table, to stare down or beat down any attacker, or at least pick their bloody selves up off the ground and give as good as they got, and still have the basic moral fiber to stand by a faithful woman and provide for as well as protect his home and family at all costs. Better an ***hole than a doormat, but best to have a protector rather than an ***hole. In the end, I’d advise a young woman to be feminine, and encourage her other half to be masculine; you’ll both be happier, more efficient, more capable people as a result.


27 posted on 07/30/2014 12:30:02 AM PDT by jameslalor
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To: miss marmelstein

You sound bitter. Hopefullt you’re a long time lez. Poor widdle girl


28 posted on 07/30/2014 12:57:48 AM PDT by ReaganÜberAlles (To be a Liberal is to be anti-American, by definition.)
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To: miss marmelstein

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What sane man would pick a Hillary or a Michelle to wake up next to in the morning?

- YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

- the instant IQ test for morons like Slick Willie and B Hussein Oblow

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29 posted on 07/30/2014 1:13:22 AM PDT by devolve (-Tell VLADIMER after my ERECTION I have more 90% more FLEXIBILITY - pre-1899 Colt SAA frames needed)
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To: miss marmelstein
I do think this attraction to bad boys has something to do with biology. Perhaps bad boys have more testosterone or better sperm counts, who knows?

Perhaps it has something to do with "putting one's best foot forward" being part of the natural domain of the deceptive person. The nice guy may also appear a bit uncomfortable whereas the more sociopathic person will tend to come across as more comfortable and therefore be perceived as more sincere.

30 posted on 07/30/2014 1:40:46 AM PDT by fso301
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Translation: Women really want real men instead of “metro-sexual” wusses. They want a man who, when he wants to “get in touch with his feminine side”, reaches out for them instead of inside himself.


31 posted on 07/30/2014 1:59:29 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Duh. This is red pill PUA stuff.


32 posted on 07/30/2014 2:24:11 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: Steely Tom

Is that Professor Benjamin Hill?


33 posted on 07/30/2014 2:24:56 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: KC_Conspirator

Professor Harold Hill
Gary, Indiana
Class of ‘Oh-five.


34 posted on 07/30/2014 2:43:39 AM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and in politic)
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To: Tucker39

I was speaking of Benjamin “Benny” Hill, BBC.


35 posted on 07/30/2014 2:49:28 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: miss marmelstein
This all has to do with biology. Women are attracted to edginess and social status; it somehow registers in their minds as being more valuable mates. Men on the other hand are quite simpler; pretty and good natured women appeal them as good mates.

Conversely, we could take a look at what women and men find unattractive and it would support this study. Think about the hovering beta males and/or clingy/needy guys you know, or even dated. Makes you cringe with disgust, right? The same can almost be said about men and unattractive women and /or mean women. However, there is the graph to where most men will put up with a woman's craziness or meanness in proportion to how much they find them attractive.

36 posted on 07/30/2014 2:49:49 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: fso301

I don’t think my beloved King of Kool - Steve McQueen - a bad boy if ever there was one - was a sociopath. Actually, a patriotic Republican who simply couldn’t handle all that success with money, wine and women. I think women are attracted to dynamic men when they are young.


37 posted on 07/30/2014 2:53:42 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: Tucker39

Class of Aught-Five, actually.


38 posted on 07/30/2014 2:54:15 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: ReaganÃœberAlles

Huh? Me a lez? Oops, the mail order bride guys are comin’ to git me!


39 posted on 07/30/2014 2:55:28 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: miss marmelstein
Pretty soon we'll have the guys who like Russian dames, Koreans and those supposedly doormat Filipino chicks checking in

99% of which are complete scam artists anyway. LOL!

40 posted on 07/30/2014 2:59:41 AM PDT by southern rock
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