Men, compared to women, value more same-sex friends who are physically striking or stereotypically attractive, they have high status and wealth and have, in addition, greater access to potential partners.
On the contrary, women, compared to men, value friends who provide emotional support, intimacy and useful social information (gossip), as suggested this recent study from January 2022.
Sexual differences and discriminations
The findings of the aforementioned study suggest that the specific friendship qualities that men and women preferred differed by sex in a consistent manner. with a functional description of friendship.
In other words, men and women have different ways of conceptualizing the world and different strategies for approaching the opposite sex and their own. For this reason, it is utopian to aspire to equality between the sexes or non-discrimination (due to sex or any other factor). For example, Ugliness is a condition that causes the wage gap, greater probability of going to prison, social exclusion, childhood rejection, less probability of being helped, greater propensity to commit crimes...
Legal equality can be aspired to, but social equality would require interventionism in which freedom would be totally or partially annulled. Seeking equality between the sexes and not discrimination is as much as searching through the prism of other conditions: height, beauty, stuttering, strabismus, and even sympathy. You can elaborate a little on this in the following interview.:
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The news
Men value other attractive men more, but women do not.
was originally published in
Xataka Science
by
Sergio Parra
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