The Big Irony: Why Modern Men Are Fooled
So men like women who look like blonde bombshells, or Barbie, and
women want to look like them, because each of their key features
(youth, long hair, small waist, large breasts, blonde hair, and blue
eyes) is an indicator of youth and thus of health, reproductive value,
and fertility. There is precise evolutionary logic behind the image of
ideal female beauty. By now, astute readers may have caught on to the
irony of it all. None of what we have said above is true any longer.
Through face-lifts, wigs, liposuction, surgical breast augmentation,
hair dye, and color contact lenses, any woman-regardless of age—can
have many of the key features that define the ideal female beauty.
Very little of Pamela Anderson's appearance is natural. A 40-year-old
woman today can rely on modern technology to continue to look like a
20-year-old woman. Farrah Fawcett at 60 looks better than most
"normal" women half her age.
And men fall for them. As the Savanna Principle suggests, their brains
cannot really comprehend silicone breasts or blonde hair dye, because
these things did not exist in the ancestral environment ten thousand
years ago. Men can cognitively understand that many blonde women with
firm large breasts are not actually 15 years old, but they still find
them attractive because their evolved psychological mechanisms are
fooled by the modern inventions that did not exist in the ancestral
environment.
Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters
From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a
Billionaire-Two Evolutionary Psychologists Explain Why We Do What We
Do.
by Alan S. Miller (Author), Satoshi Kanazawa
http://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-People-Have-More-Daughters/dp/0399533656
The Savanna Principle is a theory about the evolutionary roots of the
human brain. ...it asserts that the environment that molded the human
brain through natural selection is drastically different than the
world humans currently live in. This disparity between what man was
designed to do and what he currently can do leads to a host of
societal difficulties, according to the theory. For example, ancestors
who craved sugary and fatty foods lived longer and were healthier than
those who didn't, in a time that such things were relatively scarce.
Today, the abundance of such temptations leads to obesity and heart
disease.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savanna_principle
