Evolutionary Mate Preferences

Females just have different/complex drives/needs for sexual attraction than males, who are mostly just drived by libido/horniness. You can observe this in nature too. Seems the males are the "abnormal" ones here, addicted to chemical reactions in the brain. (Didn't expect to see this line of thinking on HN...).

It makes more sense in nature for females to be more selective than males, since once they choose a mate they have to deal with that choice for a while, resulting in males competing for females. So I think it makes sense that men would naturally be competing for women, and would have to take more risks, and try and get more money/recognition, to do that.

Female selection of males is a thing. If it weren't, the subject matter of most popular culture would not be roughly 80% romance and relationships.

It's probably because of aesthetics. Humans are not birds; in our case, sexual selection applies to both genders.

file this under "duh", men care about looks, women care more about status as a stand-in for fitness to provide offspring with resources.

It's not "society" that's failed. It's basic natural instinct kicking in. Many men prefer wider hips, large breasts, and youthful appearance. We can say all day that this comes down to taste but your inner caveman knows that she will be a healthy and providing mother.

As with many sexually dimorphic behaviors in humans (and mammals in general), this flows from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variability_hypothesisYou can have a stable/growing population with only 1 male per n>1 females. So, the evolutionarily optimal strategy is to crank up trait variance in males and have females select only the top 1/n males (hand-wavily sp

It's almost entirely about secondary sex characteristics and those exist exclusively to find fertile mates. Gay people still look at their potential partners secondary sex characteristics when deciding to mate with them. It's sort of a distinction without a difference situation.

Men don’t communicate (as much).The rest of your hypothesis rests on an idea that women evolved (into a species?) with reinforced traits focusing on appearance. Disagree here Because Men and women didn’t evolve into different “species” And neither do we find similarities between them in this regard.Selection pressure is an idea that tries to explain the trends in evolution. It is just an idea. It would be careless to trace everything in current state of behaviors to evolutionary changes.<p

The article itself is saying that women's proclivity to want higher status male is due to biology. If we're okay with it, then shouldn't men's proclivity to want younger, healthier female be okay?