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It's really a combination of two things: obesity and social media/dating apps. Together these have stratified the modern sexual marketplace to an incredible degree. The result is that the "middle class" of women (i.e. women rated 5-7) has both shrunk and diminished in quality. The reality is that absent obesity, most 16-25 year old women would be at least a 5. Probably 80% of women are naturally 5 or greater in their prime years if they don't let themselves get fat. That is the default state of nature for humans - the average woman is designed to be sexually attractive to the vast majority of men during her years of prime fertility.
Now, however, obesity has crept in and turned many women who should be 5s, 6s or 7s into 2s, 3s, and 4s. And guess what? We don't suddenly get more 5-7s to replace them. Those "middle class" women are simply gone now. They've fallen into the underclass of the sexual marketplace. So what is the middle class SMV man to do? Should he slum with the 2s and 3s? Obviously he would only do so as a last resort. So he's forced to compete for the dwindling supply of 5-7 women and take what he can get. Which for most men isn't much.
But...maybe he should set his sights higher? Why not go for the 8s and 9s? Here is where social media and dating apps affect the other side of the sexual marketplace hierarchy. They have unleashed hypergamy to a degree unknown in all of human history. Any good-looking woman with an internet connection now theoretically has access to the highest status men on the planet at the touch of a button. It is normal and socially acceptable for good-looking women to essentially advertise themselves on social media. The ease of doing so and the vast amount of positive attention they receive makes it completely intoxicating. They simply cannot resist. Almost every 8 and 9 today realizes the massive power her beauty and sex appeal provide her, and leverages it via social media and dating apps to expand her potential dating pool beyond her social circle. And good looking girls have good looking girl friends, and all of them have a friend who got wifed up by a rich, high status guy. They all want that, and by advertising themselves online they (correctly) reason that they are more likely to catch the eye of some big shot guy at some point. This is literal sexual economics. They have a product, and they take advantage of this new advertising platform to get more of their target market's eyeballs on it.
The modern SMV is essentially a winner-take-all environment. High-status men enjoy sexual access and abundance that literally rivals the kings of old with their harems. And beautiful women have never been more empowered to trade their looks for the best deal they can get. People on the low end of the SMV have completely checked out. They aren't even fucking - the 3 and below women (most due to obesity) and the incel young men form a vicious feedback loop - the men see the only women available to them are disgusting and choose to play video games instead, the women see the only men available to them are losers and pick up the ice cream. This is why statistics show young people today having less sex on average - because at the bottom end of the SMV scale most of these people are literally incel, male and female.
But just as in the case of economic stratification, the biggest losers are the middle class. The average to above average man is hit the hardest. The average to above average women is hurt as well, as many will waste their best years being pumped and dumped by higher status men on dating apps, under the delusion that they can lock one down. But they won't, and will grow bitter by their early 30s when they are forced to "settle" for a merely average guy. Many of these marriages will obviously implode within a few years, as we see happen all the time now.
It's really a bad situation. Individual men who manage to reach the top of the sexual marketplace in one way or another will laud this as the best of times. And it certainly is by that measure if you can reach that summit. But from a societal perspective, this is a total disaster and completely untenable long-term. This sexual market is simply far too stratified. There are too many losers and too many non-participants. If the average man and the average woman are no longer able to naturally come together (because half of the average women are now fat, and the other half are chasing Chads who won't commit to them) then there is something fundamentally broken in society. And the repercussions of that dysfunction will be felt far and wide.
Now, however, obesity has crept in and turned many women who should be 5s, 6s or 7s into 2s, 3s, and 4s. And guess what? We don't suddenly get more 5-7s to replace them. Those "middle class" women are simply gone now. They've fallen into the underclass of the sexual marketplace. So what is the middle class SMV man to do? Should he slum with the 2s and 3s? Obviously he would only do so as a last resort. So he's forced to compete for the dwindling supply of 5-7 women and take what he can get. Which for most men isn't much.
But...maybe he should set his sights higher? Why not go for the 8s and 9s? Here is where social media and dating apps affect the other side of the sexual marketplace hierarchy. They have unleashed hypergamy to a degree unknown in all of human history. Any good-looking woman with an internet connection now theoretically has access to the highest status men on the planet at the touch of a button. It is normal and socially acceptable for good-looking women to essentially advertise themselves on social media. The ease of doing so and the vast amount of positive attention they receive makes it completely intoxicating. They simply cannot resist. Almost every 8 and 9 today realizes the massive power her beauty and sex appeal provide her, and leverages it via social media and dating apps to expand her potential dating pool beyond her social circle. And good looking girls have good looking girl friends, and all of them have a friend who got wifed up by a rich, high status guy. They all want that, and by advertising themselves online they (correctly) reason that they are more likely to catch the eye of some big shot guy at some point. This is literal sexual economics. They have a product, and they take advantage of this new advertising platform to get more of their target market's eyeballs on it.
The modern SMV is essentially a winner-take-all environment. High-status men enjoy sexual access and abundance that literally rivals the kings of old with their harems. And beautiful women have never been more empowered to trade their looks for the best deal they can get. People on the low end of the SMV have completely checked out. They aren't even fucking - the 3 and below women (most due to obesity) and the incel young men form a vicious feedback loop - the men see the only women available to them are disgusting and choose to play video games instead, the women see the only men available to them are losers and pick up the ice cream. This is why statistics show young people today having less sex on average - because at the bottom end of the SMV scale most of these people are literally incel, male and female.
But just as in the case of economic stratification, the biggest losers are the middle class. The average to above average man is hit the hardest. The average to above average women is hurt as well, as many will waste their best years being pumped and dumped by higher status men on dating apps, under the delusion that they can lock one down. But they won't, and will grow bitter by their early 30s when they are forced to "settle" for a merely average guy. Many of these marriages will obviously implode within a few years, as we see happen all the time now.
It's really a bad situation. Individual men who manage to reach the top of the sexual marketplace in one way or another will laud this as the best of times. And it certainly is by that measure if you can reach that summit. But from a societal perspective, this is a total disaster and completely untenable long-term. This sexual market is simply far too stratified. There are too many losers and too many non-participants. If the average man and the average woman are no longer able to naturally come together (because half of the average women are now fat, and the other half are chasing Chads who won't commit to them) then there is something fundamentally broken in society. And the repercussions of that dysfunction will be felt far and wide.
