What about the various bone and flesh altering schemes we use to decorate ourselves? Where does that fit in, Mr. Iron Sage?
Though
I wouldn't disagree with the statement on its own, it's hard to say whether or not the preference for "healthy range" women is as biological as we think.
There are lots of social expectations that fit into this. Human beings seem to complicate everything they do, and the process of picking who to shack up with isn't any different.
That's really a big part of the point of what LD is doing in that course whose tidbits are populating the sex kills thread. There's so much mind-fucking involved in the whole fucking rigmarole that the effects and by-products of all of that fucking shit spill everywhere.
It's not
just pheromones, liquor, and jawbones; making matters worse is that everything else that comes with the package of being a ridiculously social animal affects fucking and vice-versa. Fucking is status, and status is fucking, and anybody who's not fucking is assumed to have something wrong with them as the reason for why they're not fucking.
...But that last bit is from a Cracked article. Don't take it too seriously.
For better or for worse, it seems like sexing plays pretty strongly into human self-esteem. So does observing yourself as a member of a ridiculed subgroup and numerous other things.
Of course since I've been waving my dick around pointing out skepticism, I'm obligated to ask why LD accepts those conclusions? What else does the study say that really solidifies the paper's statements about this unsettling tendency in script writing? Why is this a contributor to the problem of eating disorders? Instead of being one of its many symptoms and nothing more?
EDIT:
Because I have a super-stiffy for anyone named Randy apparently: