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==Meaning of the "Blackpill" on Modern Forums== | ==Meaning of the "Blackpill" on Modern Forums== | ||
The way Blackpill is used by [[incels.co]] and [[braincels]] is slightly different from its original definition, in that it explains the idea that women are | The way Blackpill is used by [[incels.co]] and [[braincels]] is slightly different from its original definition, in that it explains the idea that women are picky without referencing the original definition's talk about societal hardship/prosperity. However, the word is still sometimes used as a general expression of fatalism. Also, like the previous definition, it's usage by [[incels.co]] and [[braincels]] is typically centered in [[evolutionary psychology]] and sociology. The term 'blackpill' as it is used on the forums attempts to explain [[romance|romantic]] partnership as stemming from 3 interrelated factors: | ||
*1. Physical attractiveness | *1. Physical attractiveness | ||
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===1. Looks are necessary to the formation of physical or romantic desire<br />=== | ===1. Looks are necessary to the formation of physical or romantic desire<br />=== | ||
Women place a minimum threshold of physical attractiveness on potential mates.<ref>https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40806-017-0092-x</ref> Women also lie about the degree of importance of physical attractiveness.<ref>https://www.livescience.com/58607-mens-looks-may-matter-more-than-personality.html</ref> One could begin to bargain that while looks matter, other factors matter too. One's full attractiveness could be seen as a composite score of their attractive features. Sadly, Looks were the only factor to predict interest in speed dating.<ref>https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2005-11095-001</ref> Attractiveness and masculinity also | Women place a minimum threshold of physical attractiveness on potential mates.<ref>https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40806-017-0092-x</ref> Women also lie about the degree of importance of physical attractiveness.<ref>https://www.livescience.com/58607-mens-looks-may-matter-more-than-personality.html</ref> One could begin to bargain that while looks matter, other factors matter too. One's full attractiveness could be seen as a composite score of their attractive features. Sadly, Looks were the only factor to predict interest in speed dating.<ref>https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2005-11095-001</ref> Attractiveness and masculinity also predict a woman's chance of orgasm.<ref>https://putslab.la.psu.edu/documents/Puts%20et%20al.%20EHB%202012-1.pdf</ref> Looks are highly heritable as well.<ref> https://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/~uqbziets/Mitchem%20et%20al%202013%20Estimating%20the%20sex-specific%20effects%20of%20genes%20on%20facial%20attractiveness%20and%20sexual%20dimorphism.pdf</ref> There is an idea that looks only play a role in small team partnerships, while features such as personality matter more in a long-term [[relationship]]s. This is not the case.<ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22468419</ref> | ||
===2. Looks are not distributed evenly among men<br />=== | ===2. Looks are not distributed evenly among men<br />=== | ||
Looks, unlike features like height, are not distributed normally among the male population. One could imagine that that looks would be distributed in a naively simple way. Most are average. Some are attractive or ugly. Very few or grotesque or beautiful. The reality is that male looks are distributed close to a | Looks, unlike features like height, are not distributed normally among the male population. One could imagine that that looks would be distributed in a naively simple way. Most are average. Some are attractive or ugly. Very few or grotesque or beautiful. The reality is that male looks are distributed close to a Pareto distribution in dating environments where there are an unlimited choice and little cultural influence (like dating apps). Women rate 80% of men as below the average of all men on dating apps.<ref>http://archive.is/rSfFA</ref> Some put this at an even more lopsided ratio of 95-5.<ref>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=895442</ref> Because of this, and the fact that online dating is now the primary mode of dating in society, a large portion of men fight over a small portion of women.<ref>https://medium.com/@worstonlinedater/tinder-experiments-ii-guys-unless-you-are-really-hot-you-are-probably-better-off-not-wasting-your-2ddf370a6e9a</ref> The bottom 80% of men are fighting over the bottom 22% of women and the top 78% of women are fighting over the top 20% of men on Tinder for example. On Hinge, the top 10 percent of men get 58 percent of the likes.<ref>http://archive.is/alsV5</ref><ref>https://i.postimg.cc/xT8LMVX9/Distribution-of-Women-s-Likes-of-Men-on-Dating-App-Hinge.png</ref> If likes can be likened to money, then a small portion of men own a large portion of the online dating economy. The GINI coefficient (A measurement of inequality normally used to measure wealth inequality) places the Tinder GINI coefficient at 0.58. This means that Tinder is more unequal than 95% of countries today. <ref>https://medium.com/@worstonlinedater/tinder-experiments-ii-guys-unless-you-are-really-hot-you-are-probably-better-off-not-wasting-your-2ddf370a6e9a</ref> | ||
===3. Looks are not subjective.<br />=== | ===3. Looks are not subjective.<br />=== | ||
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One particular UCLA study states that, “a great deal of the evidence indicates two overlapping suites of psychological adaptations in women: those for securing [[long-term relationship|long-term]], cooperative social partnerships for rearing children and those for pursuing a [[strategic pluralism|dual-mating strategy]] in which women secure a social partner and engage in selective sexual affairs to gain access to genes [that are more in line with natural sexual desires] for offspring”.<ref>http://pillse.bol.ucla.edu/Publications/Pillsworth&Haselton_ARSR.pdf</ref> | One particular UCLA study states that, “a great deal of the evidence indicates two overlapping suites of psychological adaptations in women: those for securing [[long-term relationship|long-term]], cooperative social partnerships for rearing children and those for pursuing a [[strategic pluralism|dual-mating strategy]] in which women secure a social partner and engage in selective sexual affairs to gain access to genes [that are more in line with natural sexual desires] for offspring”.<ref>http://pillse.bol.ucla.edu/Publications/Pillsworth&Haselton_ARSR.pdf</ref> | ||
Women are currently dramatically more attracted to men in relationships than single men.<ref>http://digital.library.okstate.edu/etd/umi-okstate-2649.pdf</ref><ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103109001048?via%3Dihub</ref><ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1660608/</ref> Heterosexual women's natural sexual proclivities are also a catch-22. The woman naturally highly prefers a pre-selected partner ( | Women are currently dramatically more attracted to men in relationships than single men.<ref>http://digital.library.okstate.edu/etd/umi-okstate-2649.pdf</ref><ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103109001048?via%3Dihub</ref><ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1660608/</ref> Heterosexual women's natural sexual proclivities are also a catch-22. The woman naturally highly prefers a pre-selected partner (more than men), but selected men are by definition taken. The female is naturally inclined to spend her pre-child years rejecting men who aren't highly desired by other women. Once she wants to have children, there is also an incentive to keep a non-selected man around. In this situation, she has sex with unattainable men in her more fertile years and later uses less selected men to raise the child or children of the men she slept with when she is less fertile. Her strong desire for men selected by other women often overrides her loyalty to the less selected men that are kept around for children. In societies which don't spend enough effort on preventing these natural sexual desires to realize themselves, she chooses the genes from men selected by other women and later the parental investment from a more loyal male. | ||
The men who are selected by other women have historically been and are currently more masculine than men who are not selected by other women. As a result, women prefer masculine men during ovulation<ref>https://www.livescience.com/8779-fertile-women-manly-men.html</ref>. Fertile women are more likely to choose a masculine man <ref>https://www.livescience.com/8779-fertile-women-manly-men.html</ref>. Even when a less attractive male invests considerably into a partnership, the inclination to cheat to acquire the genes of selected men exists. <ref>https://www.ehbonline.org/article/S1090-5138(05)00093-0/fulltext</ref>. | The men who are selected by other women have historically been and are currently more masculine than men who are not selected by other women. As a result, women prefer masculine men during ovulation<ref>https://www.livescience.com/8779-fertile-women-manly-men.html</ref>. Fertile women are more likely to choose a masculine man <ref>https://www.livescience.com/8779-fertile-women-manly-men.html</ref>. Even when a less attractive male invests considerably into a partnership, the inclination to cheat to acquire the genes of selected men exists. <ref>https://www.ehbonline.org/article/S1090-5138(05)00093-0/fulltext</ref>. | ||
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===5. [[Hypergamy]]<br />=== | ===5. [[Hypergamy]]<br />=== | ||
Hypergamy is the natural inclination for women to "[[branchswinging|trade up]]" in terms of [[LMS|looks, money, | Hypergamy is the natural inclination for women to "[[branchswinging|trade up]]" in terms of [[LMS|looks, money, or status]]. In a social environment which seeks to [[neoliberalism|free human sexuality from cultural influence]], women become more hypergamous than men because they are naturally [[sexual selector]]s. Today, sexuality is very liberated, and women are extremely hypergamous, more than men, to the point of causing increasingly rampant [[inceldom]] among the male population. Average women receive 20 times as many matches as average men on Tinder<ref>Gareth Tyson, Vasile C. Perta, Hamed Haddadi, Michael C. Seto, Queen Mary University of London, Sapienza University of Rome, Royal Ottawa Health Care Group A First Look at User Activity on Tinder</ref>. Women rate 80% of men as "below average.<ref>https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/okcupid/yourlooksandyourinbox.html</ref> The top 10% of men get 58% of women's likes in online dating<ref>https://hingeirl.com/hinge-reports/whats-the-biggest-challenge-men-face-on-dating-apps-a-qa-with-aviv-goldgeier-junior-growth-engineer</ref><ref>ttps://qz.com/1051462/these-statistics-show-why-its-so-hard-to-be-an-average-man-on-dating-apps/</ref> The top 5-20% of men (ie. "Chads") are now having more sex than ever before<ref>Harper CR, Dittus PJ, Leichliter JS, Aral, SO. Changes in the Distribution of Sex Partners in the United States: 2002 to 2011–2013. Sexually Transmitted Diseases: February 2017 - Volume 44 - Issue 2 - p 96–100. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000554</ref><ref> https://journals.lww.com/stdjournal/Fulltext/2017/02000/Changes_in_the_Distribution_of_Sex_Partners_in_the.5.aspx</ref> Women are prone to instability when they are more attractive than their male partner<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019188691500505X</ref>. Before 'enforced monogamy', 2-to-17x as many women as men successfully reproduced | ||
<ref>https://genome.cshlp.org/content/25/4/459.full.pdf+html</ref><ref>https://psmag.com/environment/17-to-1-reproductive-success</ref><ref>https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/21/11/2047/1147770#20340635</ref> | <ref>https://genome.cshlp.org/content/25/4/459.full.pdf+html</ref><ref>https://psmag.com/environment/17-to-1-reproductive-success</ref><ref>https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/21/11/2047/1147770#20340635</ref> | ||
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Each one of the five central themes plays a part in deriving incel vocabulary. Looks being necessary, unevenly distributed, and objective provides two familiar categories: the [[incel]] and [[Chad]]. The social role of looks is also reflected in the use of the label [[Stacy]] to denote a better-looking female. However, there is more space left for disagreement over what constitutes a 'Stacy.' | Each one of the five central themes plays a part in deriving incel vocabulary. Looks being necessary, unevenly distributed, and objective provides two familiar categories: the [[incel]] and [[Chad]]. The social role of looks is also reflected in the use of the label [[Stacy]] to denote a better-looking female. However, there is more space left for disagreement over what constitutes a 'Stacy.' | ||
It is often suggested that the blackpill means that "[[it's over]]" for incels with a certain physical and [[social status]] - that is, that they have next to no chance of '[[ascend|ascending]]' or attaining sexual and overall fulfillment. The 'blackpill' also forms a basis for the occasional semi-humorous spin-off that depicts a depressing human tendency, for instance the '[[dogpill]].' | It is often suggested that the blackpill means that "[[it's over]]" for incels with a certain physical and [[social status]] - that is, that they have next to no chance of '[[ascend|ascending]]' or attaining sexual and overall fulfillment. The 'blackpill' also forms a basis for the occasional semi-humorous spin-off that depicts a depressing human tendency, for instance, the '[[dogpill]].' | ||
[[File:Blackpilleggy.png|full|center]] | [[File:Blackpilleggy.png|full|center]] | ||
==Original Definition== | ==Original Definition== | ||
The blackpill philosophy about society was first proposed by a blog commenter named [[Paragon]] on the Dalrock anti-[[feminist]] blog in 2011 and later adopted by OmegaVirginRevolt's blog. In his comment, Paragon defines the blackpill to mean (paraphrased) ''''there's no personal solution to systemic [[dating]] problems for men and only societal hardship (such as mass poverty) can solve men's systemic [[dating]] issues''''. In other words, some blackpillers don't believe that a [[sexual Marxism|sexual marxist]], wealthy welfare state is possible. Paragon, having [[dating]] difficulties in Canada, moved from Canada to the | The blackpill philosophy about society was first proposed by a blog commenter named [[Paragon]] on the Dalrock anti-[[feminist]] blog in 2011 and later adopted by OmegaVirginRevolt's blog. In his comment, Paragon defines the blackpill to mean (paraphrased) ''''there's no personal solution to systemic [[dating]] problems for men and only societal hardship (such as mass poverty) can solve men's systemic [[dating]] issues''''. In other words, some blackpillers don't believe that a [[sexual Marxism|sexual marxist]], wealthy welfare state is possible. Paragon, having [[dating]] difficulties in Canada, moved from Canada to the Philippines, a less prosperous country than Canada, and married there. '''Not all incels or incel boards promote or believe in the original blackpill definition'''. | ||
In paragons words, the blackpill was:<ref>https://dalrock.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/she-felt-unloved/#comment-22914</ref> {{Quote|to reconcile that there are no personal solutions to systemic problems – which can only resolve over evolutionary time. | In paragons words, the blackpill was:<ref>https://dalrock.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/she-felt-unloved/#comment-22914</ref> {{Quote|to reconcile that there are no personal solutions to systemic problems – which can only resolve over evolutionary time. | ||
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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
Blackpill believers may feel that the most alluring aspects of the black pill, is that it gives people who are prone to gullibility an ideological basis whereby they could reject the barrage of "self-improvement" advice that is ubiquitous in media, advertising and in day-to-day [[platitude]]s. As such, it serves as a shield for people who may otherwise have faced financial or emotional exploitation. | |||
The blackpill is corroborated by [[Bateman's Principle]] which suggests that hypergamy is innate not just for human females, but among female mammals and other female vertebrates as a whole. | The blackpill is corroborated by [[Bateman's Principle]] which suggests that hypergamy is innate not just for human females, but among female mammals and other female vertebrates as a whole. | ||
A positive effect of taking the blackpill is that it liberates you from false hope, which | A positive effect of taking the blackpill is that it liberates you from false hope, which is the dating scene would mean no longer expending so much time and effort for what is, in essence, a futile goal. | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||