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How much do you want to bet that our tax money was used to fund this study?
1 posted on 12/18/2008 12:33:02 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If I were a betting man, I’d say $5.


2 posted on 12/18/2008 12:38:25 AM PST by wastedyears ("Life's tough... It's even tougher if you're stupid." - John Wayne)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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


3 posted on 12/18/2008 12:44:32 AM PST by worst-case scenario (Striving to reach the light)
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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.

5 posted on 12/18/2008 2:05:11 AM PST by NoControllingLegalAuthority
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"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?

9 posted on 12/18/2008 2:32:50 AM PST by muir_redwoods (B. O. Stinks!!!)
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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.


10 posted on 12/18/2008 2:35:03 AM PST by Vanders9
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unless your last name is clinton, or madoff


11 posted on 12/18/2008 3:05:45 AM PST by personalaccts (Is George W going to protect the border?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

women prefer money.


13 posted on 12/18/2008 3:40:36 AM PST by ken21 (people die and you never hear from them again.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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


15 posted on 12/18/2008 4:14:44 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! so sue me!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
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.

17 posted on 12/18/2008 4:23:04 AM PST by driftless2
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women prefer mates who are recognized by their peers for their skills, abilities, and achievements

That would certainly explain why guys with bad teeth and neck tattoos get laid alot.

23 posted on 12/18/2008 4:33:38 AM PST by CholeraJoe ("Hey you, hey you! This won't hurt a bit!")
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…conducted three studies with college women at two U.S. universities.

That’s one of the problems…

I’d say that “college women” of 2008 are emotionally and intellectually *inferior* to junior-high girls of 1940.

Very naïve, despite their “education” and overall pretty hapless. Probably 35% of them would be good for a quick, easy hit - then ignore them like the other 65%.

Anyway, you might notice that the study (studies?) starts out mentioning “mates” and later muddies the water with “long term relationship” or such…

Just watch a random episode of Maury Povich and you’ll see a lot of “women” that have chosen “mates” that are *other* than their “long term relationship” as they have inexplicably become pregnant by someone *other* than their husband/fiancée, etc.

Incidentally, what cracks me up is the number of sluts that test more than *five* different guys and *still* can’t figure out who the daddy is - but I’m sure all of them were well-respected by their peers on some level.

32 posted on 12/18/2008 4:56:02 AM PST by Who dat?
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It would be interesting to see a profile of the “university students” used in the study. It appears to have a severe sample bias.

The number one attraction in relationships is that “We are attracted toward personalities who are similar with persons who we have unresolved conflict.” It’s a soul cleansing thing. It’s the reason most women marry their father and most men marry their mother. Problem is in these relationships, when we get close enough to begin experiencing true intimacy, we are comfortable enough to allow our unresolved conflict to surface and we hate the person and have no idea why. Thus marriage can be defined as that dance where we find a comfortable distance where we can tolerate but still be close enough to be in the relationship!

The irony is that women who have conflict with their mother tend to marry submissive men while men who have conflict with their father marry submissive women. That is unless a gay relationship is intellectually acceptable, in which case they will look for the conflict personality for a relationship. Even in gay relationships, one is masculine dominate and one is feminine dominate.


35 posted on 12/18/2008 5:10:59 AM PST by tired&retired
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I couldn’t be with a man who was more girly than me. No way.


40 posted on 12/18/2008 5:59:18 AM PST by JenB987
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So according to the “study” there are two kinds of guys:

Successful guys. And guys who use aggression to (try) to be successful, but who aren’t. The clear missing factoid being, the second group seems pre-defined to exclude guys, who are the combination: aggressively successful. The traditional alpha male.

No bias in that study, nope.

And it might be noted, utterly missing the fact that most guys are best at just being guys - not “networking” blue-state dweebs whose pentultimate goal in life, is winning silly contests of office politics.

Sheesh.


41 posted on 12/18/2008 6:05:04 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network ("Free Trade" = Fire Americans. Buy another company then fire more Americans.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s a given.


44 posted on 12/18/2008 6:26:55 AM PST by GOPJ (Gun Control-:- like trying to control stray dogs by neutering veterinarians.- G. Jonas)
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What do women want? I think George Harrison said it best
............

I got my mind set on you

But its gonna take money
A whole lotta spending money
Its gonne take plenty of money
To do it right child

47 posted on 12/18/2008 9:26:02 AM PST by Nonstatist
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Women love you for one reason and one reason only, its in your pants and size matters.....

Its called your wallet.

51 posted on 12/18/2008 10:56:09 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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