[ print ]  Discrimination in the Mating Market  Hundreds of
stories are reported every year about discrimination, bias, and
prejudice against women, minorities, and those who are
different. But there's a more pervasive, universal, and possibly
more insidious form of discrimination that goes on every day,
yet lacks a name or an organized constituency-discrimination on
the mating market. Although there are important individual
differences in what people want (e.g., some like blondes, some
like brunettes), people worldwide show remarkable consensus in
their mating desires. Nearly everyone, for example, wants a
partner who is kind, understanding, intelligent, healthy,
attractive, dependable, resourceful, emotionally stable, and who
has an interesting personality and a good sense of humor. No one
desires those who are mean, stupid, ugly, or riddled with
parasites. To the degree that there exists consensus about the
qualities people desire in mating partners, a mating hierarchy
is inevitably established. Some peopl