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Help me out then, because I don't see it? A fall is deadly, whether you fall from a skyscraper or a tree. You mean there might have been something else like na
by knowitall 13y ago
Help me out then, because I don't see it? A fall is deadly, whether you fall from a skyscraper or a tree.
You mean there might have been something else like nail polish, and people evolved a preference for that? But what would that have been? Some meshed up leaves people put on their finger nails?
Apparently there is something like a preference for being a woman, and using nail polish can be a proxy for that. But my point is that it is most likely learned that nail polish has something to do with being a woman. And the mechanism is not "I wish I was a woman so that I could use nail polish", it is more likely "I wish I could be a woman, and nail polish makes me feel like one".
Nevertheless, I am also not a biologist, just making things up. But I think some basic logic can be applied by everyone.
- tomp 13y agoNail polish -> healthy nails -> healthy body -> lots of resources & good genetics. Lipstick -> red lips -> sexual symbol (looks similar to vaginal labia) -> more reproductive choice
- knowitall 13y agoSure, I get that, as I also wrote here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6839794 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6839794 But those are messages for the men, not for the woman who applies the lipstick. So is the desire basically to be sexually attractive like a woman? Or falling in love with one's reflection in the mirror?
- V-2 13y agoI find it fairly obvious that natural seating contest must have worked in favor of women more inclined to beautify themselves (whether out of vanity or something else, doesn't matter at all).
- knowitall 13y agoSure, but doesn't that mean that we agree there is no genetic disposition towards liking nail polish/lipstick? The reason people like lipstick is not that they have a genetic disposition to like lipstick, it's because lipstick fakes a sexual signal.