Evidence has shown that guys are actually really good at things we happen to find meaningful and prestigious, whereas girls are only good at meaningless, frivolous things. Only people who think testosterone literally doesn’t exist would doubt this very scientific conclusion.
Sex routinely judged as mates by earning power, social status, seek jobs with high earning power, prestige, work greater hours. Sex that has tendency to select opposite sex based on earning power and social status baffled.
That would make more sense as an “uncharitable interpretation” if A) it didn’t happen basically equally both ways, or equivalently if sons inherited nothing from their mothers and vice versa B) hunter-gatherer societies where we did most of the whole “evolving the parts of us that make us human” weren’t generally egalitarian, with basically every break from that pattern having to do with the introduction of agriculture.
I can’t help but wonder how much of this is eurocentrism anyways. Like ancient Rome was not a good place to be a woman, but intelligence and nobility were very desirable traits in young girls. Men were expected to continue their wife’s education both for their mutual benefit and as a means to bond over, but also for the secondary effects having the person doing one’s own primary caretaking be educated can do.
The Egyptians worshiped Isis - not just because she was a mother, but because she was cunning, a witch in pretty much every sense of the word who managed to trick Atum into giving her his Secret Name - something no other being in existence knows because of its creative potential - but also managed to be the primary agent in avenging her murdered husband and propelling her son to take back the throne after trekking around everywhere from Nubia to Lebanon.
“Women are more desirable stupid” is not a historically common thing, and “Men are more desirable smart” is not mutually exclusive with “Women are more desirable smart”
Like your sarcastic comeback works equally whether or not you substitute (male,female) or (female,male) and that’s got to be telling of something, isn’t it?
That isn’t the same thing as stupid women being more desirable than smart women. Even traditionalists like Mailadreapta will acknowledge this. Not putting a trait at maximum priority does not mean putting it at negative priority.
Quite frankly, observing the mismatch in what straight neurotypical women say they want vs who they actually date means it will take a lot to convince me otherwise.
