As there was no counter-study they cited, it's not clear that women's expectations are "at least as" unrealistic. While this may be a result I would expect, I don't see the data backing it up (and nowhere in the actual article does it attempt to).<p>That being said, it would be exceedingly unsurprising to find that women are equally influenced by social norms/social constructs of attractiveness as men.
Another example of shoddy science reporting. Sure, it reports on a study done on attractiveness of males to females. But the title is not supported by the article - nowhere in the article does it cover men's expectations in a similar quantitative fashion.<p>And as for the opening 'men wondering what women want', <i>people</i> want different things. Finding what's generally attractive to a gender does not conversely mean that you know what individual members of that gender want. And even if either gender were homogenous anyway, what you want changes significantly as you age - what a 20-, 40-, and 60-year old want are frequently very different things, even in the same person.