Why men flatter women

Nonetheless, there are a few key distinctions in our physiques. Some of them are designed to suit each sex for the role it plays in reproduction, while others exist to help us tell each other apart and to aid in our mutual attraction. Women are the only primates who are busty all the time, even when they aren't nursing.

Alternative theories exist, but most scientists think breasts are an evolutionary trick for snagging men; though they're actually filled with fat, not milk, they signal a woman's bountiful ability to feed her children. Breasts also help men figure out who to pursue to achieve reproductive success. Prepubescent girls don't have breasts, and the breasts of post-menopausal women are often shrunken and saggy.

A full, buoyant bosom can therefore demonstrate fertility. Men aren't trying to trick women into thinking they can breastfeed, so they don't have breasts. They do, however, have nipples: This is because the genes that code for nipple development switch on in utero , and at a very early embryonic stage even before the genes gear up that turn us into males or females.

Men and women both have cartilage surrounding their voice boxes, but because men have bigger boxes which give them deeper voices , their chunks of cartilage protrude more.

This gives them neck lumps called Adam's apples. But why do men have deeper voices than women? There are many reasons why the ratio of men to women which is roughly equal in young adulthood starts to favor women over time. Among the most powerful factors? Men tend to. The uneven playing field for boys starts early. We at Bright Side decided to combine all the data that the scientists collected and tell you about the most important things women do that attract men.

In the beginning, scientists found that men prefer women who have a high "feminine" voice. Marilyn Monroe is a great example of the ideal voice. The least attractive voice is a squeaky voice like Kim Kardashian's and Ellen Page's. This is because high feminine voices are associated with youth, which equates with attractiveness. Older women often have squeaky voices. Another research showed that men prefer women who speak in a similar manner to theirs. This is about the way certain words and letters are pronounced, the pace of speech and other details.

Probably everyone knows that most of the time men prefer women shorter than themselves. The difference in height can be less than 7 or 8 inches. However, there are a lot of men whose height is less than average.

So, while tall men try to find short girls, short men look for women of a similar height. We often see couples where men are older than women. And it seems that the majority of couples are like that. However, there are very bright examples of couples where a woman is older.

Scientists found out that men aged before 20 and after 30 prefer women from 24 to 25 as sexual partners. But the flattery is a proven way to get the man to do what she wants, so why not use it? A parent might use it to shame their teenager into working harder at home or academically. The grown-up version of this occurs when a woman is unsatisfied with some aspect of the man in her life, so she openly starts making unflattering comparisons between her guy and other men in their lives.

Elizabeth Ayers-Callahan is a writer focusing on love and relationship issues, and is a frequent contributor to YourTango. Sign in. Join YourTango Experts. Elizabeth Ayers-Callahan. Subscribe to our newsletter.

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