Women Prefer Prestige Over Dominance in Mates

Personal Relationships ^ | December 17, 2008 | Amy Molnar

[2ndDivisionVet]

How much do you want to bet that our tax money was used to fund this study?

[wastedyears]

If I were a betting man, I’d say $5.

[worst-case scenario]

How would one go about finding out if that suspicion is correct?

[LouisianaJoanof Arc]

Trust me, it is correct. LOL. Women (most) don’t like the dominating type! Merry Christmas!

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

So most women prefer men who are limp-wristed and kicked around by others?

Men need to stay the hell away from women like that. Avoid them like the plague.

[Vanders9]

Not in my experience.

[Vanders9]

Not in my experience.

[Vanders9]

Not in my experience.

[muir_redwoods]

"For example, the traits and behaviors that women found attractive in athletic competitions were unattractive to women when men displayed the same traits and behaviors in interpersonal contexts."

So. my stories about stick-checking my co-workers won't get me anywhere with the ladies?

[Vanders9]

Completely pointless.

What they have done is write out a series of profiles and asked women to choose from amongst them. Interesting, but it proves very little.

I don’t know much about women (what man does) but I do know one thing: What women SAY they want, and what they actually DO want, are two very, very different things.

[personalaccts]

unless your last name is clinton, or madoff

[mathluv]

Merry Christmas back atcha! But I don’t agree with you. But then, I personally like cowboys.

[ken21]

women prefer money.

[Reeses]

women prefer mates who are recognized by their peers for their skills, abilities, and achievements

Some women are really in a beauty competition with other women. They try to 1) make other women envious of them, and 2) destroy that which makes them envious. It isn't about rich doctors with money driving Porsches as much as it is about pissing off other women.

[LibLieSlayer]

DR. LAURA:

“Honey... one day you will need a man to protect you and defend you... and if you do not marry a real man... you will not have one”.

LLS

[caver]

“Some women are really in a beauty competition with other women.”

You are right! There are many like that.

[driftless2]

Anyone interested in this subject should read Robert Crumb the famous cartoonist. Crumb, a self-confessed artistic nerd in high school, bitterly complained that the most obnoxious, strutting, violent males got all the women while the skinny, shy, more artistic, non-athletic and non-violent types like him suffered. His asserted that women craved men who appeared powerful, and the more overt the bad behavior, the better.

Crumb later boasted that after becoming famous he made up for lost ground, but he always retained his cynicism towards women because of his high-school experiences. By the way, Crumb is hardly anyones idea of a morally, upright person as he himself readily admitted.

[driftless2]

"pissing off other women"

I've made the same observation before. Many men egotistically believe that all women dress to attract them. Obviously some women do, but, like you, I believe many women are in a competition with other women between themselves.

[Scotswife]

“Crumb later boasted that after becoming famous he made up for lost ground, but he always retained his cynicism towards women because of his high-school experiences.”

Yeah well - boo hoo Mr. Crumb.Join the club.
Some of us ladies have retained some of our own cynicism towards men because of our high school experiences too.

[driftless2]

that’s “he asserted” not “his asserted. “Proofreading is a poster’s best friend. Paragraphs are a close second.