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Women's hypergamy is mainly a result of their higher [[Sexual selector|choosiness]], [[variability hypothesis|higher uniformity of sexual desire]], and men's [[Libido|higher sex drive]] and promiscuity. Men have fewer alternative mating options available to them, so they more readily make compromises and date down.<ref>https://assets.csom.umn.edu/assets/71503.pdf</ref> Women's preference for high status men ties into the natural [[Dominance hierarchies|hierarchical social organization]] found in humans. | Women's hypergamy is mainly a result of their higher [[Sexual selector|choosiness]], [[variability hypothesis|higher uniformity of sexual desire]], and men's [[Libido|higher sex drive]] and promiscuity. Men have fewer alternative mating options available to them, so they more readily make compromises and date down.<ref>https://assets.csom.umn.edu/assets/71503.pdf</ref> Women's preference for high status men ties into the natural [[Dominance hierarchies|hierarchical social organization]] found in humans. | ||
==How hypergamy arises== | |||
[[File:needs33.png|500x500px|right|thumb|The choosier sex (i.e. ''least interested'') gets to ''date up'']] | [[File:needs33.png|500x500px|right|thumb|The choosier sex (i.e. ''least interested'') gets to ''date up'']] | ||
===Women are choosy, especially about men's resources=== | |||
Historically, women had to [[Bateman's principle|invest more]] into their offspring than men because pregnancy used to be very physically risky, and by virtue of having a womb, women had more natural responsibility over children. | |||
As a result, women evolved to be [[libido|choosy and coy]] and they specialized in childcare and extracting resources from men. | |||
===The principle of least interest=== | |||
In | In unregulated dating markets and even though physically weaker, women turn out to be ''the chief [[sexual selector|sexual selectors]]'' due to the ''principle of least interest'': When an activity depends on mutual agreement, the person with the ''least interest'' decides the terms of that activity.<ref>Waller & Hill, 1951</ref> This is because the person with the most interest has less options, thus they more likely compromise than the other party to reach an arrangement. Women desire initiating sex with a random person of the opposite gender much less than men, except in case of a tiny minority of [[sexy sons|highly attractive men]].<ref>https://www.sciencefriday.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/gender-differences-in-receptivity-to-sexual-offers.pdf</ref><ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Men_like_61.9.25_of_female_profiles.2C_women_like_only_4.5.25_of_male_profiles</ref> Thus, most men have few mating options and hence more likely make compromises in order to get any sex at all.<ref>https://assets.csom.umn.edu/assets/71503.pdf</ref> | ||
===Female monopoly on sex makes women a leisure class=== | |||
<!--Due to women's dependence on men, women naturally want resource security in relationships much more than men.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109051381730315X</ref>-->In terms of sexual economics theory (SET), women sexually ''commodify themselves'' with a certain exchange value whenever they sexually reject or accept men based on the male's ability to secure a wide variety of resources. In practice this is how women select men, as women evolved to associate sex more with provisioning children than did men. | <!--Due to women's dependence on men, women naturally want resource security in relationships much more than men.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109051381730315X</ref>-->In terms of sexual economics theory (SET), women sexually ''commodify themselves'' with a certain exchange value whenever they sexually reject or accept men based on the male's ability to secure a wide variety of resources. In practice this is how women select men, as women evolved to associate sex more with provisioning children than did men. | ||
Sex then becomes a resource that men can ''purchase'' by amassing a broad array of valued goods, including non-monetary resources such as fame and competence.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016748701630277X</ref> | Sex then becomes a resource that men can ''purchase'' by amassing a broad array of valued goods, including non-monetary resources such as fame and competence.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016748701630277X</ref> | ||
This causes human females to compete with each other to inflate the "price" of sex, increasing men's sexual frustration, thus increasing the value of sex and baiting men into engaging in more committed resource provision. Women are also believed slut-shame one another maintain the value of sex, as sex given away for free lowers the value of sex, which reduces women's leverage over men.<ref>Baumeister & Twenge, 2002</ref> In this manner, women collude, forming [[pussy cartel|pussy cartels]], and inciting one another's hypergamy. By having men work for them, women become a leisure class. | This causes human females to compete with each other to inflate the "price" of sex, increasing men's sexual frustration, thus increasing the value of sex and baiting men into engaging in more committed resource provision. Women are also believed slut-shame one another maintain the value of sex, as sex given away for free lowers the value of sex, which reduces women's leverage over men.<ref>Baumeister & Twenge, 2002</ref> In this manner, women collude, forming [[pussy cartel|pussy cartels]], and inciting one another's hypergamy. By having men work for them, women become a leisure class. | ||
===Bodyguard hypothesis=== | |||
Another explanation for hypergamy may be that women naturally look for displays of brute strength and emotional resilience. Being physically weak and largely devoid of social power, in the past they needed protection from other contending males in order for their relationship to be stable (bodyguard hypothesis).<ref>https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4615-5985-6_21</ref> Provided that women have on average more suitors than men, this implies an overall tendency for women to date up, especially when the most powerful/dominant men engage in polygyny or ''de facto'' polygyny such as serial monogamy (remarrying often), thus effectively hoarding a substantial share of females. | Another explanation for hypergamy may be that women naturally look for displays of brute strength and emotional resilience. Being physically weak and largely devoid of social power, in the past they needed protection from other contending males in order for their relationship to be stable (bodyguard hypothesis).<ref>https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4615-5985-6_21</ref> Provided that women have on average more suitors than men, this implies an overall tendency for women to date up, especially when the most powerful/dominant men engage in polygyny or ''de facto'' polygyny such as serial monogamy (remarrying often), thus effectively hoarding a substantial share of females. | ||
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==Women want poor men to die in a fire, painfully== | |||
Women are '''1,000 times''' pickier about a potential partner's wealth than men according to an academic research study by Guanlin Wang.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Women_are_1.2C000x_more_sensitive_than_men_to_economic_status_cues_when_rating_attractiveness</ref> | Women are '''1,000 times''' pickier about a potential partner's wealth than men according to an academic research study by Guanlin Wang.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Women_are_1.2C000x_more_sensitive_than_men_to_economic_status_cues_when_rating_attractiveness</ref> | ||
Women also like online dating profiles with a higher education than their own ''twice'' as often, and men with lower status ''half'' as often as men with equal status.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Men_like_61.9.25_of_female_profiles.2C_women_like_only_4.5.25_of_male_profiles</ref> | Women also like online dating profiles with a higher education than their own ''twice'' as often, and men with lower status ''half'' as often as men with equal status.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Men_like_61.9.25_of_female_profiles.2C_women_like_only_4.5.25_of_male_profiles</ref> | ||