Climbing the Relationship Ladder

I spent time searching the web for helpful sites about relationships, and I stumbled across one of the most entertaining, vulgar opinions of the dating scene I've ever encountered. This website is entitled Intellectual Whores and the article I looked at is called the Ladder Theory. This guy goes through and gives situations where a male and a female meet each other and the different possible outcomes. He explains how men have a 'ladder' where they place every single woman in their lives. The ladder starts at the bottom, putting the ugliest, most terrible women and works up to the top, elite, hottest women. This guy says that every woman on the ladder, with the exception of the bottom rung, is simply a possible sexual encounter. He claims that there is no possible way a guy can just be friends with a female. Every single woman is simply a journey to the bedroom. On the other end, women have two ladders. They have the sex ladder, and the friend ladder. As females, we instantly place men on one of the two ladders, and once they are there, it is nearly impossible to switch ladders. Once a guy is put onto the friend ladder, he should not attempt to cross over onto the sex ladder. And if he is on the sex ladder, he wouldn't want to be on the friend ladder anyways because to a guy, there is no need to be friends with a girl.
The entire ladder comes across as sarcastic and cynical in respect to women and the attempts at relationships, however, through much of the sarcasm and vulgarity, there is some truth to be found. The pie charts portraying the men and women's rating systems are accurate. Women are attracted to men with money and power primarily, then attraction, then a slew of other unimportant items. Men however, are attracted by looks first, and then the potential of if a woman will put out.
What does all of this have to do with heart break? I think if men and women better understood each other's intentions, heart break would be less likely. Of course this is a very shallow representation of what constitutes attraction and potential love between two people, but isn't physical appearence and approachability what initially attracts two people to each other? Maybe if women understood that most men are just trying to get into their pants, they would be able to sheild themselves from becoming emotionally attached to that strong, confident man. And men would be much better off if they realized that for women there is a very fine line between being a friend and having the potential to be more.
Things would become easier for people looking for relationships if they were honest from the outset. If a man were open and honest with the girl he is persuing, he could get what he wants. There are pleanty of women out there who are just looking for a one night stand as much as a man is, and if they were simply upfront about it and stopped playing stupid mind games, everyone could just go home with someone who wanted to go home with them and then everyone would be happy. Ideally anyways.
The Ladder Theory is a useful tool. It shouldn't be taken too seriously, but I think if you look closely you can see where some of the truth lies. Take a look... it can't hurt.

The Ladder Theory