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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 20 2018, @04:20PM (7 children)
I think you forgot presumptuous asshats and internet jerks.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 20 2018, @04:34PM (6 children)
Haha... admit it. You're attracted to bad boys. To be a bit serious for a change, you can either recognize how your own instincts are counterproductive and then seek out better guys (even if some of them are omg-incels-run-for-the-hills! just because you're a shithead and have conveniently categorized all men with scores less than some positive integer n as evil incels and men with scores ≥ n as rapists... n seems to be somewhere around 3 or 4 but fuck all if I know), which is a strategy I've found useful, or you can keep dating asshole dipshit jerks because you're too weak to master your own instincts, dye your hair blue, and get all unhinged because All Men Are Evil and you fuckheads can't imagine any other way of obtaining your goals than controlling men's lives and bodies all the way back to the temperance movements.
Fortunately, enough men are starting to figure your crap out to start putting a stop to it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 20 2018, @05:16PM
Wow.
Whiny, self-entitled incel was triggered.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 20 2018, @05:18PM (2 children)
what else can you expect but such maroons on a Violently Lame Moron thread?]
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 20 2018, @05:40PM (1 child)
Woah, woah, there! My ego is too fragile to handle two SJW insult lobbing posts! Whatever shall I do!
Oh, I've got it! Time to cook up a big, juicy steak and masturbate over all the animal cruelty and greenhouse emissions that went into producing it!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 20 2018, @07:32PM
So normal Sunday for you? Can I get a steak BEFORE you masturbate all over?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday May 20 2018, @05:31PM (1 child)
For varying definitions of productivity, you may have some point there. Alternatively, you might learn to trust your instincts, just to see how that works out. Of course, then you would have to change your definition of productivity.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 20 2018, @05:38PM
Correct. It would be a very anti-feminist kind of productivity.