Sunday, December 20, 2009

If you've ever wondered why you like blondes with big breasts...look no further


In a book I read recently, Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters, I've come to understand more about being a human man than ever before. Several of the chapters are mind blowing, but one in particular reached out to me.

Women's Attractiveness and Why Men Prefer Barbies (Long Blonde Hair, Big Breasts)

One accurate indicator of health is physical attractiveness, and this is the reason why men like beautiful women. Another good indicator of health is hair. Healthy people (men and women) have lustrous, shiny hair, whereas the hair of sickly people loses its luster. During illness, a body needs to sequester all available nutrients (like iron and protein) to fight the illness. Since hair is not essential to survival (compared to, say, bone marrow), hair is the first place to which a body turns to collect the necessary nutrients. Thus, a person’s poor health first shows up in the condition of the hair.

The author also makes the simple observation that larger, and hence heavier, breasts sag more conspicuously with age than do smaller breasts. Thus, it is much easier for men to judge a woman’s age (and her reproductive value) by sight if she has larger breasts than if she has smaller breasts, which do not change as much with age.

It turns out that men prefer blonde hair for exactly the same reason that they prefer large breasts: both are accurate indicators of a woman’s age and thus reproductive value.

Men in cold climates did not have this option, because women (and men) bundled up in such environments. This is probably why blonde hair evolved in cold climates as an alternative means for women to advertise their youth.

To claim that girls and women want to look like blonde bombshells because of the billboards, movies, TV shows, music videos, and magazine advertisements makes as little sense as to claim that people become hungry because they are bombarded with images of food in the media. If only the media would stop inundating people with images of food, they would never be hungry! Women’s desire to be blonde preceded the media by centuries, if not millennia.

I always knew blondes with big breasts made sense to me. I just didn't know it was scientific. I love books like this, primarily because it makes me feel like my attraction to German girls is more due to how I was made, as opposed to labeling me as a supermodel stalker.

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