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Comment author: hyporational 17 December 2012 10:57:15AM *  0 points [-]

Ah, I see what you mean. You're right that I misunderstood you.

On an overly cynical side note, men adapt this way to more suitable partners too. It's just that we usually don't fall in love with resources and social status, but boobs and pretty faces.

Comment author: MrMind 18 December 2012 09:41:32AM 0 points [-]

On an overly cynical side note, men adapt this way to more suitable partners too.

Yesterday I was asking the same thing: if women see us as a bag of resources, and we could postulate that us males do the same thing, what kind of resources are we looking for in the other sex?

It's just that we usually don't fall in love with resources and social status, but boobs and pretty faces.

Meh, it's not that easy: yes, if I see a pretty face I'm attracted, but I don't know if cultural or not, I have fallen in love in the past with women that were not so beautiful but were for example fun to hang around, adventurous, caring, etc. In my opinion the statement that men search only for visual cues it's extremely simplicistic and just plainly wrong.