In your initial comment you highlighted where I said that you can't generalize the priorities and social dynamics of the past couple thousand years to all of human history and you asked "Why not?" I asked you if you'd read the OP because the entire thing is a detailed explanation of why not. If you'd read it, I wouldn't think you would have needed to ask that question.
And you didn't actually say that my argument needed more support than the vast quantity of support that it already presented. You said that sexual dimorphism and other primate behavior ought to be considered. So then I responded to that in detail to you - pointing out how it's not particularly relevant to my premise that evolutionary psychology is reductive and misleading.
Once again, I don't understand your last sentence. For 97% of history, we did not have the majority of cultures steeped in male-led dominance hierarchies (e.g. patriarchy) The social conditions were quite different. We can perhaps say that many women prefer a higher status man now, because that reads as a better provider - but that's a function of relatively recent social conditions - not what our ancient ancestors did as evolutionary psychology would like us to believe. And interestingly, that dynamic is also not as strong now as it was in say the 1950s or the 1970s because many women have no interest in being "provided for" these days - they provide for themselves. We have had several thousand years of patriarchy, and although that is still largely in effect, some of the dynamics of that are changing as we speak, as I just noted.
As I quoted at the bottom of my OP, the scientist looking at Bateman's absurd fruit fly research concluded this: “We argue that human mating strategies are unlikely to conform to a single universal pattern.” Other intelligent researchers have concluded the same thing. I would offer that this undoubtedly applies to all sorts of other situations that evolutionary psychology wants to put into a neat little box as well. Humans are quite adaptive and can make all sorts of choices in response to all sorts of conditions - including changing social dynamics. It's nonsensical and lazy to claim that "men are like this, and women are like that" generalized to all cultures and over all periods of time when all we have to do is open our eyes and look around to see how that isn't really true.
