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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 with the most sexually dimorphic traits: cartoonishly large muscles and frame, with no selective attention paid to traits like loyalty, morality, etc. | 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 with the most sexually dimorphic traits: cartoonishly large muscles and frame, with no selective attention paid to traits like loyalty, morality, etc. | ||
This results in an even higher competitive environment among men without physically sexually dimorphic traits. Due to behavioral traits also being sexually selected, | This results in an even higher competitive environment among men without physically sexually dimorphic traits. Due to behavioral traits also being sexually selected, it has been claimed, men will also become more psychopathic and disagreeable to win female attention, exaggerating character traits which many see as incompatible with 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> | ||
The originator of the concept of | The originator of the concept of Fisherian runaway, Ronald Fisher, had a teleological view of evolution where he saw natural and sexual selection as being united in driving evolutionary 'progress' towards a higher form of life. He invoked fears of runaway selection leading to the decline of societies, warning that selection for what he saw as more frivolous qualities such as wealth alone would result in negative social outcomes.<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/4027434</ref> | ||
Men's rights activist [[Warren Farrell]] in his book, [[The Myth of Male Power]], warned women that their preference for and 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]] in his book, [[The Myth of Male Power]], warned women that their preference for and 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. | ||
Even though anti-social men do outreproduce nice guys,<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#tocPersonality</ref> today's society differs from Farrell's predictions in that there is actually a trend for men to become more androgynous/feminine, e.g. testosterone levels, sperm count<ref>https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/92/1/44/2597938</ref> and mandible sizes have reduced considerably,<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Men_with_dominant.2C_aggressive_faces_.28high_fWHR.29_are_preferred_for_short_term_relationships</ref> possibly caused by [[mutation]], pollution, obesity and/or a masculinity crisis. | Even though anti-social men do outreproduce nice guys,<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#tocPersonality</ref> today's society differs from Farrell's predictions in that there is actually a trend for men to become more androgynous/feminine, e.g. testosterone levels, sperm count<ref>https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/92/1/44/2597938</ref> and mandible sizes have reduced considerably,<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Men_with_dominant.2C_aggressive_faces_.28high_fWHR.29_are_preferred_for_short_term_relationships</ref> possibly caused by [[mutation]], pollution, obesity and/or a masculinity crisis. | ||
Demotivated from competing in production of social value, today's men increasingly engage in [[Lay down and rot|LDARing]], [[NEET|NEETing]], or spending all their time [[looksmaxxing]], with women seemingly increasingly becoming choosy about looks enabled by their financial independence, as sexologist [[Kristin Spitznogle]] pointed out. Hence, society is becoming an exact mirror image of the [[beauty|Wodaabe African tribe]], the most matriarchal society on the planet. | Demotivated from competing in production of social value, today's men increasingly engage in [[Lay down and rot|LDARing]], [[NEET|NEETing]], or spending all their time [[looksmaxxing]], with women seemingly increasingly becoming choosy about looks enabled by their financial independence, as sexologist [[Kristin Spitznogle]] pointed out. Hence, society is becoming an exact mirror image of the [[beauty|Wodaabe African tribe]], the most matriarchal society on the planet, but also slight selection toward more ruthless and anti-social males at the same time. | ||
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