It's Over I wish it was the 1900s

[cathuluelitist]

If you've read Victorian romance novels (I've skimmed) the most popular situationship was that of a wealthy girl fleeing with a poor lad because she adores him. That would never occur in 2026. That wouldn't even qualify as a romance book. Most people don't think that social mobility was much higher in the Victorian era than it is now but they'd be completely wrong. In 19th-century America, it wasn't a bad idea to wager on an adventurous poor man. Hypergamy and zoism only really hit us around 1972 at the peak of the neo-marxist sex revolution. And, there's nothing we can really do to reverse any of this. It's pretty much over.

 

[Heroin_Man]

wealthy girl fleeing with a poor lad because she adores him

she only adores him because he's chad

 

[cathuluelitist]

she only adores him because he's chad

No, female sex drive operates on a blank slate. The woodstock revival proved this.

 

[Yunoo]

No, female sex drive operates on a blank slate. The woodstock revival proved this.

Cope. The poor guy was a 1900s chad. The 1900s didn’t have social media boosting the standards of females. So, the threshold to be considered chad back then was a lot lower.

 

[whiteboyhair]

If you've read Victorian romance novels (I've skimmed) the most popular situationship was that of a wealthy girl fleeing with a poor lad because she adores him. That would never occur in 2026. That wouldn't even qualify as a romance book. Most people don't think that social mobility was much higher in the Victorian era than it is now but they'd be completely wrong. In 19th-century America, it wasn't a bad idea to wager on an adventurous poor man. Hypergamy and zoism only really hit us around 1972 at the peak of the neo-marxist sex revolution. And, there's nothing we can really do to reverse any of this. It's pretty much over.

Isn’t Victorian literature mostly in the 1800s? In Jane Eyre she’s an orphan servant who engages in hypergamy and marries Mr. Rochester, who’s rich and high status.

 

[cathuluelitist]

In Jane Eyre she’s an orphan servant who engages in hypergamy and marries Mr. Rochester, who’s rich and high status.

An aberration to the Victorian trope at the time.

 

[xxdarkpixelsxx]

she only adores him because he's chad

TItanic plot essentially.