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Partner preferences for resources adapt to income and gender economic inequality.
When women make more money than men, the sexes are equally inclined towards hypergamy.
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Macken
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Macken
@MackenMurphy
Oxford grad studying mating. "Macken Murphy is able to condense vast chunks of information into engaging and digestible episodes." — The New York Times
- The day before yesterday, a social psychologist asked me, in the context of infidelity research: “Why does a man care whether the baby is his? He gets to raise it either way.” Good reminder of why the social sciences need evolutionary theory.
- "Attractive servers earn approximately $1261 more per year in tips... the primary driver of which is female customers tipping attractive females more than unattractive females." Counter-intuitive both from a female-female competition perspective and a mating market perspective.
- The richer a man is, the less likely he is to marry a significantly younger woman. Important to share, as this fact cuts against a lot of the inventive narratives about the mating market you will read on here.
- One of the most straightforward, no-brainer pieces of dating advice you can give to a young woman is “focus on your education.” Ironic, given the hallucinations you read on here.
- When evolutionary psychologists say “women prefer older men,” they mean 2-4 years older. Women in their early 20s overwhelmingly prefer men in their early-to-mid 20s. (Ofc, some prefer to believe that at 30 they’ll become hot to the kind of women who rejected them in college.)I hung out with 19-20 year olds last night and they were talking about liking older guys and I was like well how old do you mean? And they were like oh 23 or 24
- The manosphere incessantly warns women that “nobody will want them” in their 30s if they sleep around in their 20s, while simultaneously policing the many men who happily marry such women. Maybe this is too obscure but: If the former was true, the latter wouldn’t be necessary.♦️DON’T BE THE SECOND GUY!🤦🏻♂️ in her 20s vs in her 30s
- Funny graph: Hot people are perceived as funnier on camera than in audio, but unattractive people are less funny when seen. Supports theoretical view of laughter as an evolved "interest indicator." When people say they are attracted to humor they may have causality backwards.
- The replies are full of men fawning over her, and yet none will conclude from this that “men love serial killers,” as they do about women whenever a handsome male murderer goes viral. Maybe it’s not that crime is attractive but being attractive is attractive? Just a hypothesis.A Colombian hitwoman, known as ‘The Doll,’ has allegedly been arrested for several m*rders, including her ex-boyfriend
- "Focus on your career and building yourself. Don't worry about women too much, for now; your prime awaits you in your late 30s."Replying to @MackenMurphyWhat’s an example of older men suppressing dating in younger men? I don’t think I see this happening
- For women, no mate is better than just any, and for men, any mate is better than none."Relative to women, (a) men tend to be more strongly focused on romantic relationship formation, (b) men tend to benefit more from romantic relationship involvement, (c) men are less likely to initiate breakups, and (d) men tend to suffer more following relationship dissolution."
- This is very plausible. Most men are most attracted to women in their early 20s, but these women are most attracted to men in their 20s. This creates tremendous incentive for older men to suppress mating in young men.
“Wait until your 40s to settle down and the women will be all over you” is just male instrasexual competition and it's hilarious how men eat it up only to wonder why they end up lonely. - POV: You smell nice, and a baby buffalo comes over to give you a sniff.
- Why are successful women immune to the decline of marriage? 🤔 “Marriage rates either held constant or increased for the top 10% of female earners over the last four decades. In contrast, the bottom 70% of female earners saw their marriage rates decline by more than 15 percent.”
