Most men will only ever know sex from a transactional perspective. This is attributable to the law of averages. Guys who don’t fuck will always outnumber the guys who do fuck. Irrespective of why, our genetic footprint shows that one man for every seventeen women reproduced in our (pre-agrarian) ancestral past. Plotting the human genome provided us with a wealth of unflattering evidence that supports what the Red Pill figured out in the mid-2000s — 80% of men are average frustrated chumps. Even the more recent genetic data (post-agrarian monogamy) puts this reproductive ratio at one man for every seven women, but the disparity remains. 80% of men are unattractive to the majority of women.
If you frequent Red Pill podcasts today, you’ve probably heard the phrase, “Average women don’t want average men.” This is true, but it needs an update. Average women feel entitled to above-average men. As mentioned in the previous essay, the much-maligned 80 /20 Rule, which has been a Manosphere staple, also needs an update. Given the current state of the Global Sexual Marketplace, 80% of men are the Undesirables, 20% of men are the Qualifiers, and roughly 4.5% of men are High-Value Men. This is necessarily simplistic, but consider the number one complaint of women today: Men need to get their shit together to meet the high standards women have for them to be marriageable.
This is a favorite of traditional conservatives. But consider that TradCons’ angst over NEETs (“Not in Education, Employment or Training”) applies universally to young men. Unless a young woman is an incorrigible OnlyFans skank, there’s nary a critical word wasted on women becoming marriageable – and even the Skank is forgivable regardless of her sincerity.
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