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There are indications that hypergamy has intensified in recent time. | There are indications that hypergamy has intensified in recent time. | ||
[[Gynocentrism|Gynocentrism and affirmative action | [[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 female singlehood, 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://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill_(Supplemental)#Women_lose_mating_opportunities_with_higher_status.2C_men_gain_mating_opportunities</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><ref>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jomf.12603</ref> | This has possibly resulted in an increase in male [[inceldom]], but also female singlehood, 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://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill_(Supplemental)#Women_lose_mating_opportunities_with_higher_status.2C_men_gain_mating_opportunities</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><ref>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jomf.12603</ref> | ||
Sexually frustrated men and the abundance of them in online dating and social media, likely also intensify hypergamy: Frustrated men aim down more, which inflates women's self-esteem and gives them hope of securing a mate with exceptional high mate value, so they become even more choosy and date up more or show [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_fatigue decision fatigue] which creates even more sexually starved men, forming a feedback loop.<ref>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601909/how-tinder-feedback-loop-forces-men-and-women-into-extreme-strategies/</ref> | Sexually frustrated men and the abundance of them in online dating and social media, likely also intensify hypergamy: Frustrated men aim down more, which inflates women's self-esteem and gives them hope of securing a mate with exceptional high mate value, so they become even more choosy and date up more or show [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_fatigue decision fatigue] which creates even more sexually starved men, forming a feedback loop.<ref>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601909/how-tinder-feedback-loop-forces-men-and-women-into-extreme-strategies/</ref> | ||
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However, intensified hypergamy likely cannot only be seen in rise of singlehood, but also in less stable relationships: | However, intensified hypergamy likely cannot only be seen in rise of singlehood, but also in less stable 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>, despite the fact that men oppose their partner's infidelity much more strongly.<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2196146/Why-affairs-unforgivable-Six-women-forgive-partner-strayed-twice.html</ref><ref>http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1745691617698225</ref> | 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>, despite the fact that men oppose their partner's infidelity much more strongly.<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2196146/Why-affairs-unforgivable-Six-women-forgive-partner-strayed-twice.html</ref><ref>http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1745691617698225</ref> | ||
The increase single motherhood likely also points to more men engaging in serial monogamy, which is ''de facto polygamy''. | |||
== 80/20 rule == | == 80/20 rule == | ||