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=== Is human female mate choice maladaptive? === | === Is human female mate choice maladaptive? === | ||
Various members of the [[ | Various members of the [[Manosphere]] claimed that the increasingly dimorphic beauty standards that men are expected to adhere to in a harsher modern dating environment may be the beginning of a Fisherian runaway or intensification of existing ones. They say women are increasingly choosing the men most sexually dimorphic traits: cartoonishly large muscles and frame, with no selective attention paid to traits like loyalty, intelligence, etc. | ||
This also results in an even higher competitive environment among men without physically sexually dimorphic traits, and men | This also results in an even higher competitive environment among men without physically sexually dimorphic traits, and men possibly also becoming more psychopathic and disagreeable to win female attention, exaggerating character traits which many see as [[maladaptive]], at least in the context of modern civilization. There is indeed some evidence that [[dark triad]] traits are currently being sexually selected by (at least Western) women,<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273809664_The_Dark_Triad_personality_Attractiveness_to_women</ref><ref>https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40806-019-00213-0</ref>, and that criminal and anti-social men often have more sexual partners and [[reproductive success]].<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120513221622/http://abacon.com/ellis/tables/ch8.pdf</ref><ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12625439</ref><ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1090513814000774</ref> Some view this data as evidence of the beginning of a process of fisherian runaway selection. Research on sexual selection theory by Puts (2010) suggested women's preference for highly dominant men may have partly been a result of sexual selection <ref>https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07418825.2016.1216153?journalCode=rjqy20</ref><ref>https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2010.02.005</ref> | ||
Men's rights activist [[Warren Farrell]] warned of such a thing in 1993, in his book, [[The Myth of Male Power]], warning women that their preference for and [[Cheerleaders|encouragement]] of, "hunter-killer", "star quarterback", type men could cause the extinction of the human race with the arrival of nuclear technology. He also claimed that since civilization and the industrial revolution [[dark triad]] traits have become maladaptive, as the traits which foster a healthy society have switched from might-makes-right individual brutality, to [[Nice guy|cooperation, intelligence, empathy]] etc. | Men's rights activist [[Warren Farrell]] warned of such a thing in 1993, in his book, [[The Myth of Male Power]], warning women that their preference for and [[Cheerleaders|encouragement]] of, "hunter-killer", "star quarterback", type men could cause the extinction of the human race with the arrival of nuclear technology. He also claimed that since civilization and the industrial revolution [[dark triad]] traits have become maladaptive, as the traits which foster a healthy society have switched from might-makes-right individual brutality, to [[Nice guy|cooperation, intelligence, empathy]] etc. | ||