MrHen comments on Generalizing From One Example - Less Wrong
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This is indeed a cached thought, but it's mostly wrong.
Men who are introverted, sensitive, and Agreeable often make this complaint, yet they tend to perceive men without those qualities as "jerks." So, "women only like jerks" really means something like "women like men with personalities different from mine."
The observation that "women only like jerks," while untrue, is unsurprising given a well documented female preference for masculine traits in the psychological literature (cites upon request). Feminists may find this notion politically difficult, and feminists themselves might atypically dislike masculine traits in men and project their preferences onto other women via the Typical Psyche Fallacy.
I don't need a cite, but what are "masculine traits"? Grunting?
That's a pretty good list.
I reviewed some of the evidence of female attraction to masculine traits in men here, and in this series.