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What makes a man attractive? Hint: Look at his limbs
Women prefer a man with legs that are about half his height, according to previous research; scientists believe that is an evolutionary result of women wanting to choose only healthy men. Legs that are too short, for example, have been linked to type 2 diabetes. But other proportions, such as arm length to body height or whether the elbow and knee divide a limb in half, can also relate to a person's health. Do they influence women's views as well?
To answer this, researchers collected average body proportions from roughly 9000 men in the U.S. military and used them to create computer-generated images of male models (pictured). The scientists made the model's arms and legs slightly longer or shorter, and then asked more than 800 heterosexual U.S. women to rank each model's attractiveness.
How long the model's arms were relative to his height didn't seem to matter [open, DOI: 10.1098/rsos.171790] [DX], the team reports today in Royal Society Open Science. And women cared only a little about how the elbow or knee divided a limb. But as seen in previous work, women noticed if the legs made up more or less than half his height—and they didn't like it.
(Score: 5, Funny) by bart9h on Sunday May 20 2018, @01:52PM (9 children)
His wallet?
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Gaaark on Sunday May 20 2018, @03:32PM (8 children)
His fist.
I hear many women don't like being hit.
(Strange: women fall for the 'bad boy', then wonder why he treats them badly.....)
My sister fell for the whole bad boy thing and had 13 years of a terrible marriage. I blame Disney/Fables for the "Beauty and the Beast", "if you love him enough, you will make him a loving, kind Prince" thing.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Gaaark on Sunday May 20 2018, @03:34PM
Hah, just read the thread title:
when i was in high school, one of the 'sluts' showed up to class wearing a t-shirt that showed that. She got sent home.
A month later one of the goody-goody, Principal and teacher favourite girls showed up with the same shirt.
Nothing. was. done.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 20 2018, @03:35PM (3 children)
Found the incel! How dare you blame the victim! You hate women because you can't get laid. Hmm... *calculates* says here that you hate your sister because you want to sex her up. You monster!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Gaaark on Sunday May 20 2018, @03:45PM (2 children)
*calculates* says here he has 2 kids that are biologically his through sex but he can't get laid....*recalculating*......*recalculating*..... turn right here, and in 2 kilometers you will be at your destination....*recalculating*....wait.....wtf?......*recalculating*.....working.....affirmative......
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 20 2018, @04:03PM (1 child)
Yep, that's the result I got with my patented SJW insult-lobber. Everybody's an incel!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 20 2018, @07:25PM
Your penis is just an insult lobber? Sounds about right for an incel :P
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 20 2018, @09:09PM (2 children)
" I blame Disney/Fables ..."
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The most likely reason your sister married a jerk is her experiences with men while she was growing up. Blaming Disney is something that would make any decent psychiatrist laugh long and hard, and for good reason. The psychological imprinting that caused your sister to be attracted to a nasty guy has nothing to do with
Disney or any other movies, and everything to do with what she experienced at home and with other family members during her childhood.
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Sorry to burst your fantasy bubble, but your fantasy might do real damage to the thought processes of other people, so it needs to be called out for what it is : utter bullshit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 20 2018, @09:59PM
Not a troll. Blaming things like Disney in such a way is Jack Thompson-level bullshit.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday May 20 2018, @11:45PM
I don't blame Disney, I blame normalization of interracial relationships and the fact that they have been pushed hard in the Jewish-run media.
Or, as a local small-time Asian comedienne put it, "Dating Black Guys is dating black-eyes!"