Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Who's your daddy?

Apparently I and all other women (all, you hear me!? Every last one of us, regardless of culture, sexual orientation, and upbringing) have been PROGRAMMED to look for certain traits in possible mates and dates. Yep. That's right ladies. We've done been programmed, not socially as most of you rebellious gals might be thinking, but by Evolution.
Specialists said evolution has apparently programmed women to recognize men who might be interested in propagating the species by raising a family.
(Full story available here)

The persistent media presentation of Evolution makes me think of the MCP in Tron. Anyone remember that movie? I do. 'Cause Jeff Bridges definitely looks like he's good daddy material.

BTW, for those who are interested but won't click the link: the sample size was 29, all women between 18 and 20. According to the news story, these young women were asked to rate photos of men on the qualities ''likes children," ''masculine," ''physically attractive," and ''kind." Well clearly this study is flawed since they left out "has a big throbbing cock".

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ah, so they were THOSE kind of pictures...

PFG said...

V: Alas no. Penises are not readily visible and so they have absolutely no value in a woman's judgment about whether or not to engage in long term partnering with a man. What we need is something you can see right away. That is why in my follow up of this study, I will show three 19 year old women who all went to the same high school, have curly hair, drink triple tall skim soy mochas (no whip), and who are all between 5'2" and 5'6" pictures of men's ears. Based on the popularity of men choosing to wear their hair cut above the ear, I postulate that visual inspection of ears may be quite important to women in mate selection. Since it is clearly of very high importance for men's ears to show, there is likely a treasure trove of information about sexual skill, parenting ability, and earning potential encoded in the ear of man (er, I mean, of men. Wait. Shit. How does an asshole sexist twit ever refer to men exclusive without the natural and innately grammatical generic masculine interpretation taking precedent? A suggests "man men").

BF: Snort chuckle. Yes, I'm sure it would.

PFG said...

Yes but we have to ask what is the evolutionary advantage that was programmed into women regarding the asses of man men? Also, do man men who wear tight pants (e.g. John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever) attract more females as potential mates? Or do the pants allow them to scare off would be competitors? Compelling questions, Prof. Burning Fingers. I do look forward to seeing your study, indeed.
[takes pipe out of mouth, taps on table, crosses one tweed covered arm over the other and strokes chin with hand]

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Unknown said...

Hi PFG thought I would pop in...Heres the thing I look for...nice butt in a tight pair of wranglers, then there are the eyes they tell a lot...finally you have to get close to them by dancing...that way you can check out the rest of the guy before get too interested LOL