May 22, 2006

How do females chose mates? {[While big-antlered red deer are busy fighting each other to show a female who has the best rack, the doe sneaks off to mate with less well-endowed stags. Female red-winged blackbirds are not easily impressed, either. Having the most macho plumage has no detectable effect on how many offspring a male sireS"

Confirms my theory that smart guys win.

posted by path 18 years ago
  • Contradicts my experience that smart guys lose.
  • "The studs were so busy mating they had no time to raise offspring, causing their health and fecundity to suffer. Homelier birds were better dads, raising sons who had more mating success." so: if you're attrative, then you have lots of sex if you have lots of sex, then you are a bad dad you have lots of sex therefore you are a bad dad I don't get it.
  • Females lose their sense of sight and superior intelligence from time to time, and if the urge to mate strikes then, well... ...and thank Gond for that.
  • ergo, you are a good dad@
  • *Pines for 3-hours-distant smart guy with exquisite plumage.*
  • Hmmmm - possibly interesting parallels in that theory with human 'celebrity mating'?
  • Huge cocks.
  • if you're a female bowerbird, it might all depend on the swankiness of your (potential) mate's bachelor pad. really, it's all very silly, isn't it? which confirms my theory that women are capriciously fickle... i.e., even they themselves are not consciously aware of what they "want".
  • It would be more logical to think that smart women are attracted to smart men, while less intelligent women are attracted to less intelligent men - because everyone wants some parity and similarity in their relationships. (and here I go into total armchair psychology, but hey, everyone does it) But it also makes things hard, because smart men and women may also both be more likely to be more imaginative and sensitive and be able to picture rejection all the more keenly. Certainly, some of the smartest men I know are the least likely to ask anyone out - and same goes for smart women. I've even watched two bright people circle each other, obviously crushing, yet neither making a move. (Both being nerdy and shy didn't help either.)
  • All's I know is, any article that uses both "fecundity" and "rococo" is OK in my book, and must have something worthwhile to say.
  • It would be more logical to think that ... less intelligent women are attracted to less intelligent men Dear really stupid women, Email's in my profile. Yours sincerely,
  • Someone told me that the way to attract women was to put a potato in my bathing suit when I wnet to the beach, but all the women ran away screaming. Maybe I should've put it in the front of the suit?
  • A strategically placed potato is a sign of potatency.
  • And here all this time I thought it was a tomato that did the job.
  • But it also makes things hard Boy, I'LL say! ba-dump!
  • Hey, maybe if I place my iPod on my bathing suit... Auughrrgh! It's COLD! And now it's all smudged, damn.
  • HUGE COCKS, people.
  • wow Chyren I guess those big roosters have been shaking their plumage in your direction pretty successfully ;)
  • i've known some very fickle men, too.
  • there's no one theory explains why a lady will prefer some other guy some seek money and the comfort zone others take pity on poor fools who live alone some choose a sense of humour some go for the unexpected and some girls look for guys who're well-connected in part it's mere propinquity that makes her take him home instead of me
  • Monkeyfilter: guys who're well-connected Google 'define:propinquity'. First definiton: whaaa?
  • MonkeyFilter: Confirms my theory that smart guys win. MonkeyFilter: A strategically placed potato is a sign of potatency.
  • Later you can use the potato for supper and, best of all, it will already have sour cream on it!!!!!
  • a sign of impotatency
  • Chicks, right?
  • A cellphone can do wonders for self-esteem, too.
  • 'beeswacky' has got it. Attraction and dating are unpredictable (for men and women) imo.
  • guys can't even agree on one shirt size -- or the right way to make chili. why should this be any simpler?
  • With a spud down my trousers and my iPod on shuffle oh, Like a bison in rut I seek lady buffle oh!
  • How do females chose mates? Two free steaks.
  • poetato, anyone?
  • And the tuber, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the leafy bed of lettuce just inside my kitchen door; And its eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming. And the sour cream o'er it streaming melts and runs onto the floor; And my fork from out that tater that came from the grocery store Shall be lifted---nevermore!
  • *golf clap*
  • I'm trying to diet, people!
  • *applauds wildly for the Poe-em*
  • Ah, TUM, quite powerful Poe-try!
  • Bison neeeeeeeeeeeerrrds! Dare you to say that to their beard.