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Comment author: [deleted] 04 January 2013 11:29:06AM 1 point [-]

As for PUA - I might think that people are looking at signals of [fitness / how fun you might be to have sex with / whatever], and deliberately manipulating these (instead of the underlying traits) degrades the reliability of the signal, effectively "lying" about the quality under consideration.

Do you also consider wearing make-up, push-up bras, high heels and similar to be “lying”?

Comment author: wedrifid 04 January 2013 12:47:00PM 0 points [-]

Do you also consider wearing make-up, push-up bras, high heels and similar to be “lying”?

The user you are asking the question of made the grandparent in 2011 and hasn't posted recently.

Comment author: [deleted] 04 January 2013 02:44:58PM 1 point [-]

Indeed they haven't. Weird, their username did ring a bell. Whatever -- it's not the first time my memory fails me like that. shrug

Comment author: wedrifid 04 January 2013 03:31:12PM *  2 points [-]

their username did ring a bell.

Nice.

Comment author: MugaSofer 04 January 2013 05:05:48PM -2 points [-]

Do you also consider wearing make-up, push-up bras, high heels and similar to be “lying”? [emphasis added]

One of these is not like the others ;)

Comment author: [deleted] 04 January 2013 05:16:37PM *  1 point [-]

If I get your point, I think I usually could tell whether someone's wearing make-up, if I looked close enough. And at a first glance certain shoes look less high than they actually are. Dunno about push-up bras -- I'd have to test myself by looking at women wearing them and women not wearing them without knowing which are which and trying to tell them apart, but where on Earth could I get a chance to perform the experiment? ;-)

Comment author: DaFranker 04 January 2013 06:02:02PM *  1 point [-]

but where on Earth could I get a chance to perform the experiment? ;-)

The most obvious solution is to form your own harem.

=P

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