 There are differing views on whether women have deformed desires, to what extent they do, and what their effect is on the agent’s autonomy. On the one extreme, some philosophers deny that women even have deformed desires, so obviously such desires can have no hold on women or interfere with their autonomy. Christina Hoff Sommers believes that since women’s preferences are no longer the product of undemocratic indoctrination and are now taken into account by women’s having the right to vote, they are therefore authentic and it would be patronizing and illiberal to criticize women’s preferences (1994, 259–260). Many evolutionary psychologists agree with Sommers that women’s preferences are authentic rather than adaptive ones formed in response to limited options. According to Catherine Wilson, these evolutionary psychologists believe further that we live in a just world where women’s preferences match what they receive and that the distribution of the components of well-being is also just—women get what they really want (2004, 101–102). So what explains why women tend not to prefer new experiences, competition, accumulation, and social rewards to the same extent as men? According to Wilson, many evolutionary psychologists attribute women’s and men’s different traits, values, preferences, and interests not to discrimination against women, but to differential parental investment (105). What this means, for these evolutionary psychologists, is that females invest more than males in nurturing their offspring since it is more costly for a female than a male to replace a child. This phenomenon goes hand-in-hand with a greater competition among males over mating opportunities, since mating with many partners increases the likelihood of having more offspring. Wilson attributes these ideas to the evolutionary psychologists’s belief that we are all playing a game that is won by an individual’s having more viable offspring than others of her or his sex (105). This sets up a “winning human female strategy,” evidenced by thousands of years of evolution, that consists of the following norms: finding the fittest male to be one’s mate, withholding sex to get commitment, and exchanging fidelity and domestic service for lifelong sustenance (106). These female norms, in turn, according to the evolutionary psychologists at issue, reflect female preferences. Women’s lower status is explained, then, not by discrimination, but by their authentic preferences. Since women prefer to nurture children, be faithful to their mate, and avoid making their mate jealous, they do not adopt male norms and preferences associated with success in the world.