Faces and fortunes: What makes women attractive depends on how healthy the place they live is

The Economist ^ | May 3rd 2014

[BenLurkin]

That video makes me want to move to hillbilly country and learn how to drawl.

[House Atreides]

I must be in a VERY unhealthy place at the moment-—she looks attractive to me at the moment. I’d best get the hell out of here and go home.

[BenLurkin]

[Clay Moore]

Here is a start!

[Disambiguator]

Nice juxtaposition.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“In before the hoochie-mama photos that men can’t resist posting.”

Oh Hoochie Mama.... That Burkha is working.

[Reaganez]

Do women like small eyes one men?

Women put on eye liner to make it look like they have really thick eye lashes which makes eyes look bigger.

Some men have thick eye lashes too.

[Reaganez]

doe-eyed (dō′īd′) adj. 1. Having wide-open, innocent-appearing eyes: doe-eyed children gazing at the shelves of candy. 2. Credulous and unsophisticated; naive: "Many doe-eyed investors go bankrupt within a year, sometimes by expanding too fast, sometimes because of pure ignorance" (Scott Baldauf). Not necessarily large eyes. I thought large eyes were attractive on both men and women.

[BenLurkin]

Dude.....!

[the OlLine Rebel]

No, I don’t like really small nor really big. But probably smaller than the average woman’s.

No, they use eyeLINER to make the eyes bigger. We use MASCARA to make lashes look longer, which is the end in itself, not the eyeballs - people love long lashes (mine are supposed to be great, per professionals).

[the OlLine Rebel]

Thanks! LOL love it.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Over my lifetime, I’ve also noticed that party affiliation has a lot to do with a woman’s looks also. Most DemocRATS are real dawgs.

[BenLurkin]

[unread]

AUSTRALIA..!COME ON...REALLY..!

Perhaps there are a few sailors here that spent some time on that continent in the 60's with a different opinion....maybe.?

[iacovatx]

This entire article’s premise fades to simplicity and obviousness if you reverse the direction of causality. Instead of suggesting that a healthier society’s men prefer more feminine women, consider that more feminine women are more likely to appear in a healthier society. In a less healthy society, the women may subsequently not look as feminine.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Generally the perception is that women are more child-like, and that is the goal. So a woman who seems more child-like, such as your big child eyes, is healthier and more youthful and thus, more likely to bear children in kind.

[the OlLine Rebel]

But that does not mean a man in sick society will prefer more masculine.

Yet, they say it does here. They’re still looking for more masculine, not the few feminine that appear.

[Reaganez]

No, when people have really thick eyelashes and a lot of eyelashes the base of the eye looks the color of eyelashes. In most people black or dark brown. Instead of the flesh of the eye lid.

Mascara is used to make eyelashes look thicker.

I am embarrassed to know this but I have three sisters that talked about his incessantly in my teen years.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Isn’t that the funny-looking nerd scaredy-girl on Big Bang Theory?

[Straight Vermonter]

The researcher: