Women are becoming more beautiful than men
[Warning: photos of me in this post to support/disprove the scientists' theories. Don't worry, it won't turn you into stone if you look at them, ha ha.]
This made me LOL so I’m sharing it. I share the super-smart tech and business analysis that stimulates my neurons, and then all the human life idiosyncracies and incongruents that are so silly it’s LOL.
Please read these articles:
* http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,534911,00.html
* http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article6727710.ece
* http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/27/women-attractiveness-study-markets-faces-science.html
* http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/27/scientists-say-evolution_n_245897.html
Yes, that’s what the researchers found: male beauty is not evolving that much from their Neanderthal origins.
Also apparently, according to this scientific research on evolution, my beautiful mother — the one who looked like Barbara Bach, the Bond girl in The Spy Who Loved Me, when she was younger — and my handsome Dad should have produced a heart-stopping, jaw-dropping, duel-inducing Aphrodite / Diana of Troy in the shape of moi (lol). The only connection I have to Aphrodite (the Greek goddess of love, beauty and sexual rapture) is that I’m Libran and Libra is the sign of…………..Venus. Alas, I have no connection to Diana of Troy: she was blonde, blue-eyed. I’m Oriental.
LOL. Now onto whether beauty is hereditary and we women are becoming more beautiful than our mothers.
Here’s a picture of my mother as a teenager, in a dance performance at her private school:
Now, here’s a picture of me at the same age:
Totally gorgeous, right — tic-lol. Actually I got so carried away with my new found skill of cartwheeling that I almost tumbled down the hill, ha ha.
Now, whilst my mother has always been a “woman’s woman” (i.e., takes care of her appearance and prides herself on being feminine), I evolved from being a pretty, cute Daddy’s girl who wore pink gingham dresses and attended ballet classes to:
* a tomboy sportster nerd-geek
* a rebel goth with dyed purple and chili hair
* a prim+preppy University student
* a clever sophisticate with claws (it’s how a woman succeeds in the uber-testosterone environment of banking)
Admittedly, I’m not half as beautiful as my mother but she readily says I’m ten times smarter — which actually counts for more than looks, btw — and she thinks I’m better looking (this, I think, is maternal love and bias rather than fact). Even as a kid, when my parents’ friends commented on my prettiness, I just thought how shallow and trivial society’s emphasis on beauty and attire for the female sex is.
Michelle Obama is a Princeton law graduate; articulate, smart, compassionate, funny and super-organized; clearly a brilliant wife, mother, daughter and career woman; and all the media can focus on is what color shoes she’s wearing or her new haircut!
In my own case, very early on I realized that there’s a lot more to existence and the human brain than looks and being chased by the opposite sex. I worked out that there seemed to be some tacit rule whereby men exist to be smart and women exist to be beautiful, and that’s what gets noticed about them.
This didn’t twain in my young brain (and it still doesn’t). From my perspective, men have an equal right and chance of being pure eye candy and dumb as a plank as much as women have of being smart about technical topics like astrophysics, balance sheets and Schrodinger’s cat, and career focussed. People are a much more wonderful complex of brains and beauty (including inner) than existing evolutionary research gives us credit for.
When I do allocate time to be attractive and date (rarely), guys like this ask me out:
Now, it may be me but that’s one example of a non-Neanderthal looking man and if I’d agreed to move to Italy and settle down with him — as he asked — maybe my bambini would have turned out to be drop-dead gorgeous girls………Obeying this “scientific” research on the evolution of female beauty vis-à-vis male.
LOL.
Then again………………….if I allocated my Twain brain to looking beautiful and glamorous to increase my chances of genetic mating………….who would make sense of this:
* The Global Brain
* tech solutions for the global financial crisis
* business models that actually work and monetize
* code innovation
* cutting edge collaboration
* socially-voiced co-creation
* stochastic synchronicity that’s smart and LOL
?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!
It’s probably better we leave the “Beautiful People” vocation to these guys:
As for whether women are becoming more beautiful, let’s look at the Monroes, the Bardots, the Deneuves, the Fondas, the Lorens, the Taylors, the Bacalls, the Hepburns, the Zis, etc. and then let’s ask ourselves whether today’s female stars are as beautiful. Let’s do an equivalent comparison with Cary Grant, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Elvis Presley, Robert Redford, Franco Nero, etc against today’s leading actors.
Hmmmmmn……..
Better yet, let’s have the scientists examine whether human intelligence is increasing, inflecting, radioactive decaying or remaining static. This is a much more needed and interesting exercise because, if the theory is true that artificial intelligence will exceed human intelligence, then we have something of substance to think about.
LOL.