New Study Finds Short Women With Long Legs are Most Attractive

While we’re on the topic of women today, another article from the Telegraph (are they doing a special feature on women today or what?) concludes that Women who are shorter, but have long legs are the most attractive.

According to lead researcher Dr. William Brown of Brunel University,”…shorter, slimmer females with long slender legs, a curvy figure and larger breasts are more attractive.”

On the other hand, tall men with broad shoulders and relatively short legs in comparison to the length of their upper body are the most attractive to women. The article cites Olympics Swimmer, and American heartthrob Michael Phelps as an example.

The reasoning behind this discrepency is symmetry. Numerous previous studies on attraction have found that symmetry is a key component of human attraction. Since the human eye isn’t nuanced enough to detect subtle imperfections in body symmetry, the human mind cheats by judging people based on their body masculinity. A tall man with broad shoulders is considered to have high body masculinity, which also suggests a greater degree of symmetry. Conversley, a woman with low body masculinity, possessing long legs and an hour-glass figure is considered to be likely to be more symmetrical.

It’s interesting to think that while people tend to believe that their attraction to people is based on personality, fate and other novel ideas, more than likely the vast majority of human attraction is dictated by deeply rooted evolutionary instincts and biochemical reactions.

What we already knew: Women Take Forever

For ages men have known that women take forever to get ready. Now there’s proof. According to the Telegraph:

The time women spend putting on make up and getting dressed works out at 3,276 hours over their lifetimes while men only devote 1,092 hours to looking their best.

That’s right, women take exactly three times the time that men do to get ready. What takes them so long? Well apparently they spend about half an hour showering and doing their hair followed by 20 minutes putting on make-up and 15 minutes applying nail polish.

So there you have it, now you know what takes your girlfriend/wife/mother/sister/etc. so long to get ready. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate the effort that women take to look their best, but maybe, just maybe they could take a little less time…

New Music from The Game (ft. Lil’ Wayne) and Gym Class Heroes

I didn’t know that The Game had a new CD coming out, but the music video for “My Life” featuring Lil’ Wayne of off his new album L.A.X. was all over youtube today. It’s pretty good song, but not as good as anything off of his first album; “The Documentary.” Game gets political on this track, going after Jesse Jackson and Don Imus:

So eat this black music,
And tell me how it taste now
And f**k Jesse Jackson
‘Cause it ain’t about race now!

followed later by:

Walk through the gates of Hell, see my Impala parked in front
The high beams on, me and the Devil share chronic blunts
Listening to the “Chronic” album, playing backwards
Shootin’ at pictures of Don Imus for target practice
My mind f**ked up, so I cover it with a Raider hood

Hopefully his new CD, which releases on August 26th will improve on The Documentary, because personally I felt that his second album, “Doctor’s Advocate,” was a step backwards.

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While I was on YouTube I also found out that Gym Class Heroes has a new CD titled “The Quilt.” Gym Class really hit it big with their last CD, “Cruel As School Children,” and hopefully their new CD which releases on September 9th, 2008 will be a true breakthrough album for them. I was lucky enough to go to a Gym Class Heroes concert a few years ago, and they defintiley put on an awesome show, so I wish them success in the release of their new CD. Here’s the music video for “Cookie Jar,” a promising track off of the new CD :