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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 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> | ||
and even in online dating platforms with an even sex ratio, like OkCupid one finds women receive around 8 times more messages. | and even in online dating platforms with an even sex ratio, like OkCupid one finds women receive around 8 times more messages. | ||
Hypergamy is a particular expression of female choosiness. Namely, | |||
There is evidence of some women refusing to date down in educational status and marry men with lower income than their own, and rather staying single when not finding such a partner. As women surpass men in socioeconomic success, hypergamy implies that more men are becoming unattractive to women. | [[Hypergamy]] is a particular expression of female choosiness. Namely, a woman not only wants a good partner, but better than her or better than her previous partners. E.g. women with higher income tend to have preference for a man with even higher income.<ref>https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-010418-103408</ref> | ||
Women are also prone to instability when they are more attractive than their male partner.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019188691500505X</ref> | |||
There is evidence of some women refusing to date down in educational status and marry men with lower income than their own, and rather staying single when not finding such a partner.<ref>https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26747</ref><ref>https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjv001</ref><ref>https://fee.org/articles/why-single-women-are-way-more-likely-to-own-a-home-than-single-men/</ref><ref>https://newsroom.wiley.com/press-release/journal-marriage-and-family/do-unmarried-women-face-shortages-partners-us-marriage-mar</ref> | |||
As women surpass men in socioeconomic success, hypergamy implies that more men are becoming unattractive to women. | |||
Men have a higher sex drive,<ref>https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Is-There-a-Gender-Difference-in-Strength-of-Sex-and-Baumeister-Catanese/5f8446340d4ed375007351539e7993fa44e2e31b</ref> | Men have a higher sex drive,<ref>https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Is-There-a-Gender-Difference-in-Strength-of-Sex-and-Baumeister-Catanese/5f8446340d4ed375007351539e7993fa44e2e31b</ref> | ||
possibly because they have less [[Bateman's principle|parental investment]]. | possibly because they have less [[Bateman's principle|parental investment]]. | ||
This results in women having much more options to choose from and in chronic sexual frustration for most men.<ref>Baumeister, R.F. and Tice, D.M., 2001. The social dimension of sex. Allyn & Bacon.</ref> | This results in women having much more options to choose from and in chronic sexual frustration for most men.<ref>Baumeister, R.F. and Tice, D.M., 2001. The social dimension of sex. Allyn & Bacon.</ref> | ||
Since men have fewer alternative mating options available to them, they more readily make compromises and date down.<ref>https://assets.csom.umn.edu/assets/71503.pdf</ref> | Since men have fewer alternative mating options available to them, they more readily make compromises and date down.<ref>https://assets.csom.umn.edu/assets/71503.pdf</ref> | ||
This means the social expectations for men are overall higher. It also | This means the social expectations for men are overall higher. It also means that [[Femcel|femcels]] are rarer than male incels and more likely [[Volcel|volcels]]. | ||
There is a fundamental asymmetry in that men do not care about women's socioeconomic status, but women | |||
Because women | There is a fundamental asymmetry in that men do not care about women's socioeconomic status, but women care a lot about men's status.<ref>ftp://repec.iza.org/RePEc/Discussionpaper/dp11933.pdf</ref><ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Women_rapidly_lose_interest_in_sex_once_in_a_stable_relationship_or_living_with_a_man</ref> | ||
Because women constantly want a better man, they get bored with relationships and sex sooner which may explain why they are more likely to initiate divorce.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Women_initiate_69.25_of_divorces</ref> | |||
Women have been dependent on men's resources throughout history, for example, in historical societies women were much more involved cooking than in resource extraction<ref>https://doi.org/10.2307/3773347</ref>. Hence, the principles of economics can be applied to sexual market: Women can sell exclusive access to sex because men have higher sex drive and desire certainty about their parenthood, and men can sell the resources because women depend on them.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016748701630277X</ref><ref>https://d-nb.info/997448148/34</ref> This means, welfare and affirmative action for women, as well as decreasing economic growth and increasing economic inequality, tend to reduce the [[SMV]] of lots of men. | Women have been dependent on men's resources throughout history, for example, in historical societies women were much more involved cooking than in resource extraction<ref>https://doi.org/10.2307/3773347</ref>. Hence, the principles of economics can be applied to sexual market: Women can sell exclusive access to sex because men have higher sex drive and desire certainty about their parenthood, and men can sell the resources because women depend on them.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016748701630277X</ref><ref>https://d-nb.info/997448148/34</ref> This means, welfare and affirmative action for women, as well as decreasing economic growth and increasing economic inequality, tend to reduce the [[SMV]] of lots of men. | ||
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Curiously, women prefer partnered men over single men which may be related to women's preference for high status.<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> | Curiously, women prefer partnered men over single men which may be related to women's preference for high status.<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> | ||
In summay, women's love style is more opportunistic and transactional than men's. Women are loved unconditionally, men are not. | |||
=== Women prefer dominant and [[Stoicism|stoic]] men === | === Women prefer dominant and [[Stoicism|stoic]] men === | ||