I don't react to behaviors like competing for status, class signaling and spending beyond ones means
The demonstrations of power I do enjoy are when they're able to hold up their end of a debate with me (I keep wishing for someone to win against me), or when they're doing something really, really intellectually difficult. Those things, I do respond to.
That is class signalling (of a particular class) and winning debates is competing for status.
Fluff? No.
You have your own sexual preferences and the traits that you are not attracted to appear less intrinsically worthy. Another woman may say she isn't attracted to "Fluff" like intellectual displays and rhetorical flair and instead is only attracted to the 'things that really matter' like social alliances, security and physical health.
I have to wonder if other women like me are the same.
This seems tautologically likely.
Lol thank you Wedrifid, that was refreshing, and you were pretty good.
I disagree with you, but you're welcome to continue the disagreement with me. (:
Just because other people use those as signals that a person is in a particular place in a hierarchy does not mean that:
A. I believe in social hierarchies or that social hierarchies even exist. (I see them as an illusion).
B. The specific reason I am attracted to these qualities is due to an attraction to people in a certain position in the social hierarchy.
The reasons I want someone who is able to d...
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