Tierney quote on natural selection

Thought this was worth sharing:

Women tells researchers they’re more likely to marry a man who takes risks to help others, like rescuing a baby in a burning building. There’s some evidence they admire guys who try edgy sports like bungee jumping, but there’s also evidence they frown on risk-taking just for the thrill of it. They especially don’t want to marry guys who jeopardize their health with frat-boy stunts like binge drinking. That would cover the beer-chugging scene in the “Jackass” movie, and presumably most of the other stunts too.

So the Jackass phenomenon doesn’t seem to be a case of runaway sexual selection. It looks more like runaway nonselection, as the anthropologist Lionel Tiger dubs the process. The men have become so determined to outdo each other that they don’t care if they’re endangering themselves and grossing out potential mates in the process.

It’s the same runaway process that causes women to endanger their health by starving themselves to look like fashion models. Extreme thinness is a status symbol to other women, not men. Men prefer women who are normal weight or plump, but the stick figures on the fashion runways aren’t trying to appeal to a male audience. Like the guys on “Jackass,” they’ve lost sight of the other sex because they’re so busy trying to impress their own.

Girls, keep re-reading that last paragraph until it sinks in. It is to my continued frustration that women don't seem to accept this.