I say it's all about the desire to be more awesome. Being incredibly beautiful is part of being awesome. Plus, I don't know about you, but I know I find a person way more intimidating if they're incredibly good looking.

So all else being equal, a badass is even more of a badass if he's beautiful, even if there's no other women around for hundreds of miles.

Women are able to want to look pretty just to impress/intimidate other women without it being a homoerotic thing. Why is it homoerotic when men do it? Are we that unable to separate beauty and sex?