>>509721437Unquestionably, I would prefer to be 2 points more attractive.
I am a research mathematician with an IQ of 142, a White man of Scottish and Danish ancestry, 6 ft 1 in tall and in good physical shape. I have clear, wide-ranging ambitions both intellectual and political, yet I am still single - and not by choice.
One of the great tragedies of modern life is that many of the most intellectually gifted men regard the social performances and petty intrigues required to acquire influence as distractions from their true vocations. Whether they are building a company, composing music, or developing a scientific theory, such men must devote time to solitary, often thankless work that bears fruit only slowly, if at all.
And yet status is not determined by depth or foresight, but by visibility. This is especially true in the sexual market, where the female brain is rarely equipped to intuit male potential unless it is embodied in present cues. A man may be respected by his male peers, may even have connections that thread their way into the corridors of global power - but if his influence is not immediately perceptible, it will often count for nothing in the eyes of women.
This is not because women are malicious or shallow, but because they perceive dominance differently to men. Female attraction evolved not to detect abstract capacity but to respond to immediate markers of success and protection. Women usually cannot feel their way into abstraction or the delayed power structures that high-status men inhabit. Thus, men who live in long-term vision - who bear difficulty for the sake of a future only they can see - are penalized in a short-term sexual culture.
