There are some differences between what women consider attractive female traits and what men actually find attractive. The example I like to give is how some women enlarge their lips even though men (usually) don’t find that attractive.
I think these are the relevant points:
Maybe women’s sense of each other’s beauty is more discriminating than men’s.
Some women probably don’t distinguish a sex symbol’s actual physical attractiveness from the other characteristics that would make her rarely and especially appealing to women (like fame, wealth, etc.), and they’re neglecting to account for these factors being less salient to men.
I do think that men underestimate the roles that things like fame play in their own attraction (would they be as eager to brag about having slept with a celebrity lookalike as they would about having slept with the actual celebrity?), but I’m also reasonably confident that a list of “female celebrities that heterosexual men would most want to have a one-night stand with” would differ a lot from a list of “female celebrities that homosexual women would most want to have a one-night stand with”.
There are some differences between what women consider attractive female traits and what men actually find attractive. The example I like to give is how some women enlarge their lips even though men (usually) don’t find that attractive.
I think these are the relevant points:
I do think that men underestimate the roles that things like fame play in their own attraction (would they be as eager to brag about having slept with a celebrity lookalike as they would about having slept with the actual celebrity?), but I’m also reasonably confident that a list of “female celebrities that heterosexual men would most want to have a one-night stand with” would differ a lot from a list of “female celebrities that homosexual women would most want to have a one-night stand with”.