Re:Why Being Smart Won't Get You Laid
by banned_man on Sunday April 19, 2009 @04:13PM
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So your argument is that women don't have shitty, infantile tastes so much as shitty, infantile priorities, then?
Re:Why Being Smart Won't Get You Laid
by joetrumpet on Sunday April 19, 2009 @04:49PM
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It came about for evolutionary purposes, I'm sure, and the magnitude of their influence is quite debatable, and varies greatly from person to person. But do you believe status is not a factor in the eyes of most girls (this is, of course, simply a generalization)?
I'm sure you have friends who you would consider incredibly nice, but very shy, guys who never could get a girlfriend, and plenty of jerky, but confident, guys who you wonder why girls would date. Confident guys, even when not nice, just seem to win out over really nice, but not at all confident, guys. Guys with both win out over both. Whether or not it's a bad thing is your call.
(I'm not arguing guys are above their primitive desires: not by any means, it's just not the focus of this discussion.)
In my experience, girls do want first and foremost an alpha male, and being a nice guy on top of that makes it even better. It's just not a necessity so the jerks can succeed without that quality, whereas the nice guys can't succeed without "dominance."