"...how to dwell in the ambivalent place where we acknowledge that no one is obligated to desire anyone else, that no one has a right to be desired, but also that who is desired and who isn’t is a political question..." https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n06/amia-srinivasan/does-anyone-have-the-right-to-sex … via @LRB
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Ooh, so much here... Agreed that (violent) extremes aren't representative. That said: the man who says no woman will date him, but what he actually means is, no woman who looks like a supermodel, or who's 30 years his junior, is a... type, w/out a female equivalent
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Look up hypergamy, assotative mating, and 'where have all the good men gone'; check out sex differences on Tinder. Yeah, there is.
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http://www.ehbonline.org/article/S1090-5138(17)30315-X/abstract … We found that ratings of attractiveness were around 1000 times more sensitive to salary for females rating males, compared to males rating females. (...) Neither raters' BMI nor age influenced this effect for females rating male attractiveness.
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Also try this https://jezebel.com/dont-date-up-dont-date-down-date-equal-1636986964 … and maybe Sex and the City.
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(Hilarious how, halfway through, she completely forgets her recognition that women "date up" in terms of being provided for. "From there, we learn that women are more likely to date down." Hehe, "
#nuance".)
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