1401b wrote:
Geez, women want resources from men and men want sex. How hard is this?? It's biological evolution, all your "yeah but" arguments ARE you creating the societal pressure you're whining about.
Geezuz are you all really trying to bang out a Unified Theory of Dating??
Here, how about this...
In my experience most women have no clue what they want in a man. But they will list everything they can think of on the spur of the moment like a shopping list.
Also in my experience when they meet a guy that "clicks" for them the list goes right out the window.
But that's okay, who says everybody has to know what they want and stick to everything they've said about the subject?
To understand that this is "Sexual Conflict" <link, and that deception is unavoidably an integral part, will perhaps allow us Aspies to realize that what the other gender says is not what we should base our "truth" on. We must use observation and research.
Until we can understand and accept the actual biological imperatives and the factual differences in gender needs, we'll just stay confused as how to successfully woo someone from the opposite gender.
-Most male animals want sex.
-Gestating and care giving offspring is resource intensive and a heavily gravid female will likely have little success in resource gathering, especially in the hunting arena.
-If the males help contribute resources to child rearing, the species is likely to be more successful.
-Contributing resources allows breeding for babies more often.
-If the cared-for female offers sex and exclusivity to the providing male, the male needs waste less time and resources (and competition) on finding other avenues for sex.
But making it too obvious about what we want means the potential partners might lie about their "fitness" to what we want.
Thus deception: subtlety testing until we can build confidence about the other individual's ability, desire, and commitment to provide what is important to us.
Men pretending they don't value sex and they don't expect anything in return for dinner.
And
Women pretending they don't care how much money he makes.
Want proof? (or at least a couple clues)
Men have a tendency to try to show off how much cool stuff they have.
And
Women tend to wear makeup and underwires.
You know this is generally true even it "not all men and women do that!! ! !" or even if "I don't do that!! ! ! ! ! !"
When you understand this simple behavior, you'll understand how to date long enough to figure out if you should take a chance on a person or not.
Please stop crying that it's not fair, or not equal, or mean ole society has to change.
Nothing is going to fundamentally change before you die of old age so if you want sex, or if you want a baby, stop the tantrum, grow up and cope with how life has developed over the last 4 billion years.
Grow up and accept the hard truth.
Most women must have additional resources to have a baby.
And
Most men really kinda must have sex.
How else do you think there got to be seven billion of us? Politically correct dating??
You are so right! (Even about the list)
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Me grumpy?
I'm happiness challenged.
Your neurodiverse (Aspie) score: 83 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 153 of 200 You are very likely neurotypical
Darn, I flunked.