”Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature”
From ‘Psychology Today’ supposed truths about human nature that you won’t hear said too often owing to their un-pc nature. Some of them ring fairly true or at least as being somewhat correct - why men are better off in monogamous societies or why men like thin blonds;
Men prefer young women in part because they tend to be healthier than older women. One accurate indicator of health is physical attractiveness; another is hair. Healthy women have lustrous, shiny hair, whereas the hair of sickly people loses its luster. Because hair grows slowly, shoulder-length hair reveals several years of a woman’s health status.
Men also have a universal preference for women with a low waist-to-hip ratio. They are healthier and more fertile than other women; they have an easier time conceiving a child and do so at earlier ages because they have larger amounts of essential reproductive hormones. Thus men are unconsciously seeking healthier and more fertile women when they seek women with small waists.
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But not all of them ring as true - the claim that ‘men sexually harass women because they are not sexist’ is one that I just can’t follow (whether its just a case of me needing to reread it a few times or whether its a case of it being rubbish I’ll leave you to decide) or the part about what Bill Gates and criminals have in common for example which ends with this paragraph
Women often say no to men. Men have had to conquer foreign lands, win battles and wars, compose symphonies, author books, write sonnets, paint cathedral ceilings, make scientific discoveries, play in rock bands, and write new computer software in order to impress women so that they will agree to have sex with them. Men have built (and destroyed) civilization in order to impress women, so that they might say yes.
which to be honest I don’t fully accept. I do know the logic of it is good, but at the same time I know there’s something wrong with that argument - perhaps its just a feeling that the example is a bit too OTT?Still though, its worth a look.