Rich men, beautiful women. It’s sort of a cliche, right? Ugly old
man, young blonde gold digger. The Millionaire Matchmaker. Men make
money to get hot women. Women try to look hot to land men with money.
What is there to argue with?
Evidently, quite a lot. A really interesting article by James Hamblin in the Atlantic goes deeper. Yes, “physical
attractiveness is exquisitely, at times incomparably, important to both
men and women. Status (however you want to measure it: income, formal
education, etcetera) is often not far behind. In real-life dating
studies, which get closer to genuine intentions, physical attractiveness
and earning potential strongly predict romantic attraction…On these
“consensually-ranked” traits, people seem to aspire to partners who rank
more highly than themselves. They don’t want a match so much as a
jackpot.”
“Women spend a lot more time trying to look good than men do,”
McClintock said. “That creates a lot of mess in this data. If you don’t
take that into account then you actually see there’s a lot of these guys
who are partnered with women who are better looking than them, which is
just because, on average, women are better looking. Men are partnering
‘up’ in attractiveness. And men earn more than women—we’ve got that
70-percent wage gap—so
women marry ‘up’ in income. You’ve got to take these things into
account before concluding that women are trading beauty for money.”
The fact is, reports McClintock, women value men’s attractiveness
just as much their wallets. And men value women’s kindness and
personality just as much as their looks. To suggest otherwise diminishes
what happens in genuine happy marriages, which are based on much more
than a mercenary exchange for looks and money.
Most men don’t want to be sugar daddies, most women don’t want to be
gold diggers, and, as a result, the vast majority of us are not.
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