Peter Wright

The Only Non-Gynocentric Approach in the Manosphere

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Within the manosphere, every major school of thought—traditional MRAs, Red Pill and PUA communities, MGTOW, Black Pill and incel circles, and tradcon voices—treats gynocentrism as an evolutionary given. They differ in tactics, yet they share the premise that women (and to varying extents men) are hardwired for maintaining female-centered narcissism and solipsism, making extreme prioritization …

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No Babies? — Not Hypergamy

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In the last decade, “hypergamy theory” has become the default explanation for women’s preference for high-status men. In its evolutionary form, the theory argues that ancestral women who secured higher-resource mates improved their children’s survival through better nutrition, safer environments, and greater parental investment. If true, female status preference should be tightly linked to reproductive …

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What’s in a suffix? taking a closer look at the meaning of gyno–centrism

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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, …

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Feminism and Romance Literature

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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 …

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