NEWS YOU CAN USE: Physical attractiveness means good health.

Lots of equalists these days claim that beauty is specific to culture . . .

As we saw recently, female beauty as traditionally defined is an indicator of intelligence, fertility, and the likelihood that a woman will bear intelligent children. And unfortunately for the cultural constructionists, men who live in a remote, indigenous community, Papua New Guinea, who presumably have never been exposed to Western media, consider an hourglass figure a crucial determinant of female beauty. So do blind men.

Worse news for the equalists: physical attractiveness is robustly associated with good health in both men and women.