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and even in online dating platforms with an even sex ratio, like OkCupid one finds women receive around 8 times as many messages.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Hypergamy</ref> | and even in online dating platforms with an even sex ratio, like OkCupid one finds women receive around 8 times as many messages.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Hypergamy</ref> | ||
Men are more choosy about looks for long-term relationships than for short-term relationships, but women are even choosier in long-term relationships because they care about looks ''in addition'' to men's ability to provide. | Men are more choosy about looks for long-term relationships than for short-term relationships, but women are even choosier in long-term relationships because they care about looks ''in addition'' to men's ability to provide. | ||
As a moderately polygynous species, human females are thought to have reproduced twice as reliably as males throughout history, possibly largely due to their greater choosiness or, equivalently, [[libido|men's greater promiscuity]] and competitiveness.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Before_.27enforced_monogamy.27.2C_women.27s_effective_population_size_was_up_to_17x_larger_than_men.27s</ref> | |||
Further, women prefer partnered men over single men which may be related to women's preference for high status, but may also be an adaption of women living in [[polygyny|harems]].<ref>http://digital.library.okstate.edu/etd/umi-okstate-2649.pdf</ref><ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103109001048</ref><ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1660608/</ref> Men do not show such preferences. | |||
[[File:poorcel2.png|thumb|right|Number of received messages by income bracket and age (OkCupid Blog). [[Scientific Blackpill#Women_prefer_men_with_high_income_and_high_educational_status|More information]].]] | [[File:poorcel2.png|thumb|right|Number of received messages by income bracket and age (OkCupid Blog). [[Scientific Blackpill#Women_prefer_men_with_high_income_and_high_educational_status|More information]].]] | ||
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and women are more likely to initiate divorce across a wide variety of cultures<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Women_initiate_69.25_of_divorces</ref> | and women are more likely to initiate divorce across a wide variety of cultures<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Women_initiate_69.25_of_divorces</ref> | ||
and have been in the US at least since year 1862.<ref>http://www.web.stanford.edu/~mrosenfe/Rosenfeld_gender_of_breakup.pdf</ref> | and have been in the US at least since year 1862.<ref>http://www.web.stanford.edu/~mrosenfe/Rosenfeld_gender_of_breakup.pdf</ref> | ||
'''Hypergamy explained by evolutionary psychology''' | '''Hypergamy explained by evolutionary psychology''' |