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What Gives Women Status?
Men compete for status and the essential dimension of competition that differentiates them from women I would say is something like productive economic generosity. Women are looking to equalize the economic disparity that's attendant upon differential cost for reproduction so men are evaluated on the basis of their potential for economic reciprocity and generosity which gives them status males. The higher the status a woman has the higher the matte the status of the mate that she can obtain now that brings up a question which is what gives women status? So one of the answers is obviously associated with beauty and reproductive capacity and sexual attractiveness those things all tangled together extraordinarily tightly but that's not the only thing i don't think, this i think is really worth