The world is changing, so should we. - Discuss new techniques and developments here
11-08-2018, 09:04 AM
I think many of the changes of recent years boil down to one thing:
Visual Hypergamy - girls now place much more value on looks and less on intangible qualities.
This is largely due to social media, but also overexposure to the male form in general. Women have gone from seeing perhaps 1000 unique men at most in their life 100 years ago, to potentially thousands in a week. A girl can see as many unique male faces swiping through tinder one evening as a peasant girl might in her entire life 100 years ago, and not much fewer than a farmgirl would 15 years ago before smartphones. This affects their assessment of what qualifies as good looking.
Intangible Qualities: girls are now unable to measure these in a man due to our feminised society, and place more value on looks as a result.
The intangible sexual hierarchy of alpha, beta, etc. is determined not by women but other men. I often see people talking about alphas as though it is women who detects an alpha. This is false. Throughout most of history male groups existed with collective skin in the game (think tribes hunting for their livelihood or going into battle to protect their life) and men would sort themselves into a hierarchy largely on the basis of intangible masculine qualities such as bravery, trustworthiness, dominance etc. The alpha is the man other men choose to lead them into battle or direct a week-long dangerous hunt. Women would feed off this hierarchy in selecting a mate and since it was the result of the assessment of a large group of men with skin in the game, it provided the most accurate measure of the intangible worth of a man.
These male groups are almost nonexistent now. Not long ago business, politics or the military would provide proxies for these meritocratic male-spaces. But with HR departments and feminisation this is no longer really the case.
The result is that women now find it very difficult to assess intangible masculine characteristics in a man, so they are much more visual. When women do attempt to select for alpha characteristics it is generally the r-selected traits of assholery and ZFG attitude, since r-selected alpha traits are very easy to detect (but also easy to mimic), not being dependent on the assessment of other men with collective skin in the game.
Fame is also increasingly important as it is easy for women to detect. But in our feminised society fame shows less and less correlation with the masculine traits which result in the approval or admiration of other men, so I don’t think fame-chasing women necessarily get what they truly want from a man.
The Result: how you are portrayed on visual media (instagram, tinder photos) is becoming more and more important and the SMP is becoming more and more polarized, but on the basis of looks, not game or status.
On the plus side, in-person game is an excellent way to demonstrate certain masculine traits such as bravery, dominance, composure etc. that girls are more desperate for than ever. However, the glass ceiling for looks for in-person game is also getting lower.
Most of this applies mainly to the west, but it’s spreading.
Visual Hypergamy - girls now place much more value on looks and less on intangible qualities.
This is largely due to social media, but also overexposure to the male form in general. Women have gone from seeing perhaps 1000 unique men at most in their life 100 years ago, to potentially thousands in a week. A girl can see as many unique male faces swiping through tinder one evening as a peasant girl might in her entire life 100 years ago, and not much fewer than a farmgirl would 15 years ago before smartphones. This affects their assessment of what qualifies as good looking.
Intangible Qualities: girls are now unable to measure these in a man due to our feminised society, and place more value on looks as a result.
The intangible sexual hierarchy of alpha, beta, etc. is determined not by women but other men. I often see people talking about alphas as though it is women who detects an alpha. This is false. Throughout most of history male groups existed with collective skin in the game (think tribes hunting for their livelihood or going into battle to protect their life) and men would sort themselves into a hierarchy largely on the basis of intangible masculine qualities such as bravery, trustworthiness, dominance etc. The alpha is the man other men choose to lead them into battle or direct a week-long dangerous hunt. Women would feed off this hierarchy in selecting a mate and since it was the result of the assessment of a large group of men with skin in the game, it provided the most accurate measure of the intangible worth of a man.
These male groups are almost nonexistent now. Not long ago business, politics or the military would provide proxies for these meritocratic male-spaces. But with HR departments and feminisation this is no longer really the case.
The result is that women now find it very difficult to assess intangible masculine characteristics in a man, so they are much more visual. When women do attempt to select for alpha characteristics it is generally the r-selected traits of assholery and ZFG attitude, since r-selected alpha traits are very easy to detect (but also easy to mimic), not being dependent on the assessment of other men with collective skin in the game.
Fame is also increasingly important as it is easy for women to detect. But in our feminised society fame shows less and less correlation with the masculine traits which result in the approval or admiration of other men, so I don’t think fame-chasing women necessarily get what they truly want from a man.
The Result: how you are portrayed on visual media (instagram, tinder photos) is becoming more and more important and the SMP is becoming more and more polarized, but on the basis of looks, not game or status.
On the plus side, in-person game is an excellent way to demonstrate certain masculine traits such as bravery, dominance, composure etc. that girls are more desperate for than ever. However, the glass ceiling for looks for in-person game is also getting lower.
Most of this applies mainly to the west, but it’s spreading.