I usually look at miserable women and think "put down Cosmo, eat some coconut oil, and sex up your man, you'll be fine."

Pretty much the definition of "girl game". Or wife game, if you prefer.

What straight women thinks about other women that way? In any case, even writing that she has a lesbo list is discomfiting, regardless of who is on it. Sounds like she was trying to get on at least one of her guy friends "would bang" list, maybe? Or just be edgy and man-like.

Could be any one of those. I tend to lean toward the "seeking male approval and validation" angle. It was a good illustration of just how poorly most modern women- and many men, for that matter- understand what men find attractive.

The writer started off by listing women who are accomplished, intelligent, and highly… pneumatic- yet her male counterparts rejected almost all of her suggestions and instead responded with women who are pleasant, good company, and have good proportions.

I suspect that the differences in perceptions are due to, as you say, the poisons of mass media and modern culture. Women have been raised for the last thirty years with completely unrealistic expectations of their roles in modern society, and as a result their perceptions of what is and is not attractive have been thoroughly warped.

Picking up on yesterday's thread, media consumption is mostly poison. I'm pretty sure the author of this article doesn't really think SJP or Kate Moss or whomever are really attractive enough to turn her on for a night. It sounds, rather, like she is repeating something for which other women might applaud her (i.e., finding the unconventional sexually attractive). What straight women thinks about other women that way? In any case, even writing that she has a lesbo list is discomfiting, regardless of who is on it. Sounds like she was trying to get on at least one of her guy friends "would bang" list, maybe? Or just be edgy and man-like.