Many on the left reject evolutionary psychology explanations as being arbitrary stories. I do not think this critique is accurate regarding evo psych, but it is forceful when applied to their explanations.For instance, views of female beauty. An evo psych person would say these are shaped, as in other animals, by features indicating youth, health and fertility. In a word, fitness.The cultural/social explanation seems to explain these cross-cultural standards in terms of capricious malice. These standards, they say, are entirely or mostly taught in order, for instance, to make women feel bad or to "control" them or out of sheer malice. And then you ask why this is the case, that is, why are these the standards? Why the pursuit of control or whatever? I have been unable to find an answer to this, as to what they view as the ultimate cause of these phenomena. Or put another way, what is the origin of this culture/society?
