[sprout]

Curious that xkcd commented on this sort of thinking just Wednesday: http://www.xkcd.com/775/

Though most of the article remains very relevant when you take it out of the "this is the way it has been for thousands of years" mold which doesn't really have incredibly ironclad evidence and recognize that our present society does present these barriers for women.

But I do think that overcoming our perceptions is not a matter of overcoming hardwired notions, but societally reinforced norms which can seem awfully hardwired.

[hakl]

A Freudian explanation isn't the same as an based on "evolutionary histories". Her last paragraph is about changing perceptions of attractiveness.

[sprout]

I realize her argument was not a cut-and-dry evo-psych narrative, but she came close, and this paragraph in particular felt suspect:

>For thousands of years, men look for beautiful and young-looking women to bear their children and women look for powerful men who can well protect themselves and their children. Such an instinct has been imprinted into our unconsciousness.