We're cutting missile defense and spending it on what?

Our tax money at work. From the Federal Department of the Criminally Obvious, researchers funded by the National Science Foundation have determined that (surprise of surprises) men choose women based on appearance. They also determined that women focus on other traits, such as financial success, social status, health, and familial commitment. To top it off, women had a general idea of that men would be attracted to them and (who would have seen this coming) aimed for the men who would be most desirable but who would be "in their league."

It really sounds more like a few researchers got together, had few drinks, and came up with some sexist comments about both genders, wrote them up as a paper, and then filed for their grant money.

Study: Men Go for Good Looks
ABC News

Science is confirming what most women know: When given the choice for a mate, men go for good looks.

And guys won't be surprised to learn that women are much choosier about partners than they are.

"Just because people say they're looking for a particular set of characteristics in a mate, someone like themselves, doesn't mean that is what they'll end up choosing," Peter M. Toodd of the cognitive science program at Indiana University, Bloomington, said in a telephone interview.

Researchers led by Todd report in Tuesday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that their study found humans were similar to most other mammals, "following Darwin's principle of choose females and competitive males, even if humans say something different."