The Human Reproductive Skew Is Not Evidence of Female Hypergamy
The reproductive skew isn’t proof of female hypergamy—it’s a myth pushed by people who want to gaslight you into accepting and catering to gynocentrism.
The reproductive skew isn’t proof of female hypergamy—it’s a myth pushed by people who want to gaslight you into accepting and catering to gynocentrism.
The following article provides an example of a ‘threat narrative’ – i.e., in this case the threat that chivalry is departed or dying, thus putting women in danger in a myriad ways. The ‘Chivalry Is Dead’ trope has been wheeled out by every newspaper and media outlet for the last two centuries, on a weekly …
There’s some confusion around the word gynocentrism and it’s meaning, so this piece will explore a little discussed part of the term: -centrism. This suffix makes a restrictive demand, i.e., that women are most important interest we might hold. The Cambridge dictionary describes centrism the following way: CENTRISM: The fact of having a particular type of person, …
What’s in a suffix? taking a closer look at the meaning of gyno–centrism Read More »
According to a recent poll only 18% of U.S. people consider themselves feminist.1 On that account we can expect readers of romance novels to comprise not more than 18% feminists, and likely far less due to the fact that feminists disparage traditional approaches to romance…. at least according to their rhetoric. A more generous National Geographic/Ipsos survey2 …
As Max O’Rell noted in the year 1900, men tend to exert intersexual frame within a larger intersexual frame of gynocentrism of which they are unconscious, while deluding themselves that they are guiding the entire interaction. “The best thing that can happen to a man is to be ruled by his wife; but she should rule him …
Discussion about transgenderism is all the rage, with many people railing against what they view as a Frankenstein fad, and yet others who are encouraging the trend beyond what anyone would consider reasonable limits – e.g., gender-affirming surgery for children. A third approach is that of the social phenomenologist which accounts for people (including myself) …
Hypergamy: an evolutionary norm, or exaggerated by cultural narcissism?
Many commentators blame the rising female selectiveness in relationships on “hypergamy”—the idea that women naturally seek partners of higher status. While this has evolutionary grounding, a more compelling explanation lies in cultural narcissism. In affluent, individualistic societies, narcissistic traits have surged—particularly among women raised in a culture that glorifies self-worth, esteem, and chivalric deference. This …
Is It Really Hypergamy — Or Just Narcissism in Disguise? Read More »
The tradwife not exactly your kind of woman? You could always look for a ‘modwife.’
Grandparents also get alienated from grandchildren via divorce. Will grandparents give up on the idea due to the risks?