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The closest female behavior to male romance is pair bonding, a promise of sexual exclusivity driven by men's desire for [[paternity assurance|assured paternity]] and a fear the female will be abandoned or starve, having been incapable of survival in the ancestral human environment.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill_(Supplemental)#Women_were_historically_predominantly_involved_in_cooking_and_they_never_dominated_men</ref>

Research on [[blind dating]] and semi-blind dating suggest during initial pair-bonding personality traits do not play any role,<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Looks_are_most_important_to_women_in_speed_dating</ref><ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Looks_are_most_important_to_women_in_video_dating</ref><ref name="walster">https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Looks_are_most_important_to_women_in_blind_dating</ref> so what is called "romance" probably mostly boils down to the female passively accumulating information in terms of [[LMS|looks, money and status]] about the suitor (see [[Sex drive#Female_passivity|Sex drive §