{"id":30666,"date":"2015-03-16T04:00:33","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T08:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=30666"},"modified":"2015-03-15T19:08:28","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T23:08:28","slug":"yes-men-and-women-do-have-conflicting-strategies-in-relationship-seeking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/03\/16\/yes-men-and-women-do-have-conflicting-strategies-in-relationship-seeking\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, men and women <em>do<\/em> have &#8220;conflicting strategies&#8221; in relationship-seeking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/observer.com\/2015\/03\/boohoo-why-are-older-men-looking-at-women-half-their-age\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amy Alkon<\/a> responds to a recent <em>Guardian<\/em> piece lamenting men&#8217;s choices in (younger) women:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Evolutionary psychologists David Buss and David Schmitt theorized that men and women have \u201cconflicting strategies\u201d in seeking romantic partners, emerging from our differing physiologies and the ensuing differences in what sex can cost us.<\/p>\n<p>Because a woman can get pregnant from a single sex act and be stuck with a kid to drag around and feed, women evolved to care a lot less about a man\u2019s looks than his ability and willingness to be a \u201cprovider.\u201d A veritable mountain of research suggests Buss and Schmitt\u2019s theory is right.<\/p>\n<p>For example, anthropologist John Marshall Townsend and psychologist Gary Levy showed women photos of an ugly guy in a Rolex and business attire and a handsome guy in a Burger King uniform. Women overwhelmingly went for the business lizard over the burger stud.<\/p>\n<p>But back to the guys. Ancestral men could just walk away after sex and still pass on their genes. So men evolved to want to have sex with as many of the most healthy, fertile women they could. And what does health and fertility look like? Well, female beauty: Youth, clear skin, symmetrical features (reflecting health and no icky parasites); long, shiny hair; and a figure that\u2019s more hourglass than beer vat.<\/p>\n<p>The difference in what men and women prioritize in partners is best summed up by my friend Walter Moore. A guy complained to him that women are only attracted to wealthy men. Walter joked back, \u201cThat\u2019s so unfair because we don\u2019t expect them to be wealthy; all we ask is that they look like models.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Alkon responds to a recent Guardian piece lamenting men&#8217;s choices in (younger) women: Evolutionary psychologists David Buss and David Schmitt theorized that men and women have \u201cconflicting strategies\u201d in seeking romantic partners, emerging from our differing physiologies and the ensuing differences in what sex can cost us. Because a woman can get pregnant from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[130,43],"class_list":["post-30666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-evolution","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7YC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30667,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30666\/revisions\/30667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}