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From: dimitrov@csd2.UUCP (Isaac Dimitrovsky)
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Subject: Re: Money vs. Good looks
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Date: Thu, 23-May-85 10:16:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 23 10:16:00 1985
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>                               ...  but at one level, at least, "good looks"
> relate to various primitive physical abilities.  Thus, we may hypothesize,
> women are attracted to large, strong men because they (at least in a
> primitive society) are good defenders and providers; they can go out and
> spear caribou, or fight off grizzly bears, or something like that.
> Likewise, perhaps, men are attracted to women who are best adapted to
> childbearing.

If this were so, men should be attracted to women who are as fat as
possible, shouldn't they? In fact, I think that 1) what is considered
attractive changes a lot from time to time and society to society,
and 2) lots of men and women have their own ideas of attractiveness
which don't necessarily have anything to do with the current
ideas of attractiveness.

Isaac Dimitrovsky