[lbo-talk] why do beautiful women marry ugly men?

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Thu Aug 3 22:03:19 PDT 2006



>[man, if this isn't a double helping of pseudo-science: evo psych & econ!]

The contrary view was promulgated by Schopenhauer, a runt whose "Pessimistic" philosophy was shaped half by his lifelong sexual frustration and half by his lifelong resentment at Hegel, whose lectures were always full with paying students while he himself remained in poverty because nobody was willing to pay to listen to him. Anyway, Schopenhauer theorized that women shunned him, a genius, in favor of better-formed males, because intelligence is inherited through the female line (hence he offered no sociobiological advantage) while physical beauty is inherited through the male line (making him a sociobiological liability).

Shane Mage

"Mortals immortals, immortals mortals,

living their deaths, dying their lives"

Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 62



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