riddled with contradictions yep
I don't know why people can't just admit that looks matter tremendously when determining (especially a man's) dating pool. It's so fucking obvious, the gaslighting gets tiring. Have these people never read any dating/sex studies in their lives? Speed dating, online dating, rating men and women's attractiveness I mean whatever you go to it becomes obvious real fucking fast that men aren't picky and women are very picky.
There's very clearly an equation that exists that entails stuff like looks, social status, wealth, and such (some parts of looks are sort of tweakable such as weight, but height/face nah dawg) -- on the other hand men prefer to date and fuck young fit attractive virgin women (women fucking seethe like there's no tomorrow about the virgin/low notch count part, but this clearly isn't nurture since it's a common preference that men have that transcends cultures -- there are evolutionary theories such as related to paternity fraud that have been proposed as for why, but the preference is definitely there) but are far far more willing to compromise than women.
Almost everyone on this site would be fine with their looks-match, but the issue fundamentally is that women date up and men simp. This was probably different in the past because social dynamics weren't the same in western society, but probably it was the sexual revolution/birth control perhaps that made everything go haywire to start I wonder.
That one graph from the OKCupid founder's book Dataclysm pretty much sums up the whole situation -- men rate women on a bellcurve (expected) but women rate men with an aggressively harsh cutoff point beneath which the vast majority of men were labeled as "below average". My own brother once said that doesn't make sense because we have an even number of men and women, but what people like this miss is that how it actually goes is you have the small handful of top Chads that basically fuck all the women then only later when the women hit the wall and need to "settle down" either because they desperately want kids (being a stay at home mom is a fucking cake walk compared to most industry 9 to 5s -- there's a reason why most people man or woman say in surveys they'd rather be a home maker -- being a mom requires no education and is easy as shit compared to what you'd actually be doing if you had to support yourself) or because they want a man to support them and they're at the point where they can't get Chad.
Perhaps part of our problem is that we're outnumbered -- Chads are a small percentage of men, but combined with women make up the majority of people so if the system works for them we're already behind assuming everyone has equal political/voting power. Beyond that at least half of us are indoctrinated bluepillers and traitors though it's maybe hard to blame them when all of us were indoctrinated from birth to be pro-woman simps with no self respect for our own interests. Western society is great in some ways, I don't deny that, but most men are treated like second class citizens -- we're just workhorse tax payers while women get lots of choices on easy mode (for example, women actually get to choose whether they work or not, men don't -- also they can get as much or as little sex as they please, again most men don't).
Video games and porn aren't a real replacement for genuine human needs -- I don't have the power to change the system, but I guess the best we can do is try to blackpill as many men as possible.