Trusted, Automoderated users
17,538
edits
Blackpill: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
→Criticism
(→Criticism: citing arbitrary tweets seems unnecessary. not notable enough) |
|||
| Line 345: | Line 345: | ||
'''Too much focus on looks''': Correlations between looks, height, income and partner count are weaker than incels claim, and thus the blackpill hyperfocuses too much on looks. A counter argument may be that there may be a trend towards lookism that is not yet evident in older data e.g. due to the recent rise of online dating. | '''Too much focus on looks''': Correlations between looks, height, income and partner count are weaker than incels claim, and thus the blackpill hyperfocuses too much on looks. A counter argument may be that there may be a trend towards lookism that is not yet evident in older data e.g. due to the recent rise of online dating. | ||
</li><li> | </li><li> | ||
'''Too little focus on economics''': Economic causes of inceldom like wealth inequality and economic stagnation come | '''Too little focus on economics''': Economic causes of inceldom like wealth inequality and economic stagnation come up short. Costs of living increasing discourage family formation.<ref>https://ablogaboutincels.com/2019/12/21/expectations/</ref> Millennials have only a fraction of the worth babyboomers had at the same age. Many blackpillers only focus on hypergamy as an economic issue. | ||
</li><li> | </li><li> | ||
'''Furthering the welfare state rather reducing it''': Some blackpillers hold that poverty is a better solution to inceldom than mass abundance.<ref name="ref208">https://dalrock.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/she-felt-unloved/#comment-22914</ref><ref>Roger Devlin said this somewhere too</ref> To the contrary, child-rearing could instead be more subsidized to reduce female selection based on income. Blackpillers respond that women would then turn to looks and status. State welfare advocates also tend to promote broad societal egalitarianism (Jante Law eg), a sort of status leveler that is rumored to reduce intrasexual competition. However, they do not usually put forth a plan on how to reduce [[sexual dimorphism]]. And in 2019 they tend to favor open-borders and liberal internet policy, which can increase sexual dimorphism in the dating sphere. | '''Furthering the welfare state rather reducing it''': Some blackpillers hold that poverty is a better solution to inceldom than mass abundance.<ref name="ref208">https://dalrock.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/she-felt-unloved/#comment-22914</ref><ref>Roger Devlin said this somewhere too</ref> To the contrary, child-rearing could instead be more subsidized to reduce female selection based on income. Blackpillers respond that women would then turn to looks and status. State welfare advocates also tend to promote broad societal egalitarianism (Jante Law eg), a sort of status leveler that is rumored to reduce intrasexual competition. However, they do not usually put forth a plan on how to reduce [[sexual dimorphism]]. And in 2019 they tend to favor open-borders and liberal internet policy, which can increase sexual dimorphism in the dating sphere. | ||