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 …
Hypergamy: an evolutionary norm, or exaggerated by cultural narcissism?
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 …
Hypergamy: an evolutionary norm, or exaggerated by cultural narcissism?
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) …
