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== Overview == | == Overview == | ||
Women's hypergamous instinct consists in constantly evaluating whether the gains from a new [[relationship]] will offset the losses of leaving an old one, and constantly analyzing the value of their partners relative to the available pool of men and in context of social expectations. | Women's hypergamous instinct consists in constantly evaluating whether the gains from a new [[relationship]] will offset the losses of leaving an old one, and constantly analyzing the value of their partners relative to the available pool of men and in context of social expectations. | ||
This instinct fundamentally appears to be an anxiety about resources and fear about being stuck with a man who isn't the best one available.<ref>https://therationalmale.com/2019/03/11/womens-existential-fear/</ref> | |||
In terms of evolutionary biology, this behavior can be explained by [[Bateman's principle]] which also explains greater sexual choosiness in non-human females- | |||
Since women are physically weaker and have less power over resources, hypergamy is also the more stable mate choice for women, because choosing the best man among the ones that promise continued investment a woman can attract, ensures that her partner cannot be outcompeted by an even better one and contest her decision. | |||
[[Gynocentrism| | There are indications that hypergamy has intensified in recent time. | ||
[[Gynocentrism|Gynocentrism and affirmative action]] have allowed more women to surpass men in educational and socioeconomic status, hence rendering more men unattractive to women due to women's hypergamous preference to date up. | |||
This has possibly resulted in an increase in male [[inceldom]], but also in sexless women, in fact high status women are often observed to prefer singlehood over dating down.<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> | |||
Sexually frustrated men aim down more, giving women even more mating choices together with online dating and social media, so they become more choosy and strengthened in their natural role as [[Sexual selector|sexual selectors]].<ref>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601909/how-tinder-feedback-loop-forces-men-and-women-into-extreme-strategies/</ref> | Sexually frustrated men aim down more, giving women even more mating choices together with online dating and social media, so they become more choosy and strengthened in their natural role as [[Sexual selector|sexual selectors]].<ref>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601909/how-tinder-feedback-loop-forces-men-and-women-into-extreme-strategies/</ref> | ||
Growing economic inequality and decreasing economic growth have the same effect as fewer men can attain reliable high status, which is what women go for.<ref>https://journals.openedition.org/chs/737</ref> | Growing economic inequality and decreasing economic growth have the same effect as fewer men can attain reliable high status, which is what women go for.<ref>https://journals.openedition.org/chs/737</ref> | ||
Though intensified hypergamy likely does not only affect singlehood, but also existing relationships: | |||
With a decline of marriage norms, greater acceptance of polygamy and [[divorce]] laws greatly benefit women, women more readily [[Marriage#Move Toward Polyamory with Rise in Divorce|jump ship]] when a better man is available, which can be seen in women initiating divorces more often than men and a closing gender gap in infidelity.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Blackpill#cite_note-46</ref> | |||
[[Marriage]], monogamy, and other forms of arranged partnerships were possibly, in part, culturally evolved [[Egalitarianism|egalitarian]] adaptations for counteracting hypergamy. In fact, the best antidote to hypergamy is [[monogamy]] because it forces women to settle down with a partner of similar [[SMV]]. | [[Marriage]], monogamy, and other forms of arranged partnerships were possibly, in part, culturally evolved [[Egalitarianism|egalitarian]] adaptations for counteracting hypergamy. In fact, the best antidote to hypergamy is [[monogamy]] because it forces women to settle down with a partner of similar [[SMV]]. | ||