This suggests that men either know what (heterosexual) women find attractive, or that preference functions for performance-mediated attractiveness are to some degree independent of sex.
That's true, but what's often overlooked is that the benefits of attractiveness are greater for men than for women -- and in some fields, attractive women are penalized for their looks.
Her boys and girls of Generation X-Factor, obsessed with trash culture and hopelessly deluded about everything from their prospects to their attractiveness, are dead-on accurate.
These bodies are not simply perfect, they are differently perfect; the rest of the time, the rules of attractiveness are circumscribed, handed down by a prissy marketing automaton who doesn't like smells.
Remaining differences in attractiveness are most unlikely to reflect that some have trained harder than others.Dr Postma's study does not rule out the role of favouritism in other fields of endeavour.
If skin is a screen, and a woman writes on it, she is telling the world (or even just herself) that her own standards of attractiveness are more important to her than the standards of anyone else who might cross her path.
