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#580 - Dr Tania Reynolds - What Use Are Female Friendships?

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I Think the Sex Ratio Is Becoming More and More Skewed Towards More Women on Campuses

Women's intersectional competition for mates tends to focus at least in one domain on their physical attractiveness. i think that this might be consequential if we think of you know modern university is the sex ratio is becoming more and more skewed towards more women. It might not feel really great for Women who are on those campuses to be surrounded by desperately dieting because there's loads of hot women around themYeah yeah so it led to more body dissatisfaction and a greater desire to lose weight  i think its worth noting that our brains still make these relative comparisons even though in really large populations we probably shouldn't be doing that as almost impossible.

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