What’s the connection between the women of Rio’s Carnival and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg? For Brazil’s O Globo, Mônica Geraldi Valentim writes that even if women have become more financially independent in recent decades, the lengths to which they’ll go to look attractive is proof that catching a mate still requires good old-fashioned thin waists, full lips and silky hair; and for a man, what still counts most is a nicely-stuffed bank account.
For Brazil’s O Globo, Mônica Geraldi Valentim writes in part:
Throughout our evolutionary history, women who showed signs of youth and health had the advantage in the competition for sexual partners. And beauty, somehow, has always indicated that a potential partner has quality genes and is capable of producing offspring with a good chance of survival.
If female attractiveness is related to success in finding a mate, one of the main requirements for choosing an alpha male is the capacity to accumulate resources to ensure survival under the most arid conditions. As much as women have become financially emancipated in recent decades, rich and successful men continue to have plenty of options when choosing a sexual partner.
And the newest trend is to be super fit! What’s really beyond my comprehension is, where is freedom of choice when one follows a diet full of military-style restrictions, undergoes daily enzyme injections, endures painful facial treatments and presses 1100 pounds with one’s legs? … and all with the sole purpose of keeping our bodies constantly screaming their refusal to show the slightest sign of natural aging? While I wonder how someone can literally live such a saltless, sugarless life, I still seek the motivation that maintains such sacrifice.
And this is where I see the intersection of Carnival’s muses and Mark Zuckerberg. …
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