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Why are women held to a higher standard of beauty than men?
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August 1st, 2008
(Note: I am not rendering any kind of value judgment either way on this situation. This is an observation, not a statement of how I’d like the world to be. And as Kevbo mentioned in another thread, please feel free to disagree with my premise.)
Why is physical beauty so crucial to a woman’s value as a partner but not a man’s? In most sexually dimorphic species, the situation seems to be reversed. Men have to be showy and flashy to compete for females. But in human beings, a man’s physical attractiveness seems to be sort of a moot point, as long as he has other qualities that we value (money, power, status, intelligence). Why?
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