“The square-jawed man can get any female he desires and thus would not stay around as a parent; the less square-jawed man gets the promise of sex and care in return of sticking around to help with the kids!”
I found this statement to be funny, maybe most girls see square-jawed men desirable, but this is absolutely incorrect for me. When it comes to defining beauty in other cultures and in the United States, we all have different viewpoints of the word beauty. In our society, an ideal woman is tall, slender, long hair, perfect white teeth, and has a nice skin complexion. When you look at movies or ads you normally see these types of women representing the media.
Women here are pressured everyday to fix or change something about their looks. Make-up and plastic surgeries are the two things that most women feel they need in order to look like the models seen on TV or ads. In some cultures, some may find American women to be ridiculous and that they do too much to try and look beautiful. For example in my Vietnamese culture, women there do not like tanning, they find it to be dirty looking. They also find women with a lot of make-up trashy. A Vietnamese woman is all about the natural look with a light skin complexion as opposed to a tan one. So depending on where you’re from or what your culture is, everyone will have a different perspective on the word beauty.
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Are there "hard wired" determinants of beauty that are not cultural or socially constructed, e.g. facial symmetry? Do women despise "square jawed" men, not because they are unattractive, but because psychologically women know these men won't stay around (after all they are attractive to other women?). Consequently, one may ask, do women end up falling for less square-jawed men?
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