Women love being check out by attractive men, because it implies value - that they are high a high quality female, sought after by an attractive mate.
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Possibility implies a frame of action. A latent threat is still a threat, even if the negative action is never actualised.
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That's why games are fun.
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I suppose Oedipus perhaps proves your point. GSA is a major issue for closely related adults who meet as adults when not subject to the incest taboo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_sexual_attraction …
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Without the Westermarck effect, you are much more likely to find close relatives sufficiently attractive, which seems to back up the 'every woman is fuckable to every man' point.
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It's just opportunity cost / time investment / impact / fall out dynamics. All subconsciously calculated.
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Perhaps. Do you not find this a little bit bleak, though? Or merely 'how it is'. Is there no room for mere delight in conversation/company? Just epiphenomenal? It's true that beauty contains at its heart an ineradicable sadness which seems anti-adaptive. Are we not maladaptive?
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I don't think an object level analysis of reality should be compromised because the conclusions are bleak. That's the "logic" of Progressivism. The good formalist accepts Reality > pretty little lies.
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Oh I agree. I suppose I just like my analysis tempered with a bit of poetry I suppose. It's an aesthetic quibble. I am otherwise perfectly happy to accept any and all bleakness. Like, buy a girl a rose first!
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Take the example of a woman who has consented to go out with a particular man for the first time. She knows very well the intentions which the man who is speaking to her cherishes regarding her. She knows also that it will be necessary sooner or later for her to make a decision.
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But she does not want to realize the urgency; she concerns herself only with what is respectful and discreet in the attitude of her companion. She does not apprehend this conduct as an attempt to achieve what we call "the first approach;"
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