Scientific Blackpill: Difference between revisions

Social scientist [[Menelaos Apostolou]] suggested that the contemporary rise in [[inceldom]] and [[relationship]] instability may be caused by an [[evolutionary mismatch]]. An evolutionary mismatch means that the current conditions mismatch those in which humans evolved in, disturbing natural human behavior, including mating behavior. In particular, Apostolou looked at historical data on marriage practices and found that the majority of societies studied had [[arranged marriage]] as their dominant mating practice. Free mate choice did exist (especially in the second marriage), but it was less common. These statistics even hold true for primitive societies in [[life history|fast life history]] ecologies.

Adaptations for arranged marriage may include the expectation for one's parents and others to be involved in one's mate choice. This is expected to express as a shyness to date, which sociologist [[Brian G. Gilmartin]] identified as [[love shy]]ness. Indeed, Apostolou's studies (2021) found the lack of dating skills to be a main cause of inceldom.

Various factors impede with marriage traditions today. For one, marriage is regarded as a loss of freedom and wasted economic potential (especially for women due to [[feminism]]). Further, with declining religious traditions, there is much less obligation for people to get married. The existence of adaptations for arranged marriage combined with the obstacles in the way of marriage is hence a [[blackpill]], indeed, as it is something out of control of the individual. Culture changes fairly slowly, so it would likely take decades to reverse this damage to human culture. This means many will remain in a somewhat desolate state.

More evidence for such adaptations is that arranged marriages [https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2217232/arranged-marriages-lead-to-happier-relationships-because-couples-put-more-effort-in-to-make-them-work/ last longer] than normal marriages and arranged couples are [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1474704919887706 just as happy or unhappy] as other couples.