army1987 comments on Scientific Self-Help: The State of Our Knowledge - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MugaSofer 02 January 2013 11:27:58PM -2 points [-]

The obvious breaking point would be that breast implants, at least, are improving the trait directly rather than improving signaling of said trait. Makeup ... depends on whether men care about what you look like underneath, I suppose.

Comment author: [deleted] 03 January 2013 11:09:49PM 0 points [-]

The obvious breaking point would be that breast implants, at least, are improving the trait directly rather than improving signaling of said trait.

Okay, make that push-up bras. ISTM that people object to them waaay less often than they object to PUAs.

Comment author: MugaSofer 04 January 2013 10:57:54AM 0 points [-]

I've seen people object to them, but it definitely seems an order of magnitude less than the reaction people have to PUA. Perhaps there are other factors at work here.