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RE: Myth 2. The theory I’ve heard is that women choose those lower paying fields because they want the flexibility those field offer as that makes child rearing
by baron816 9y ago
RE: Myth 2. The theory I’ve heard is that women choose those lower paying fields because they want the flexibility those field offer as that makes child rearing easier. More government support for child care and longer school hours would therefore make it possible for more women to go into more demanding and higher paying fields.
I also suspect that many men choose higher paying and “harder” fields because they’re expecting that it will make them more desirable to women. Women don’t feel that same pressure. In other words, rich men are more willing to marry a teacher or social worker. Rich women, not so much—they want to marry someone even richer.
- jessewmc 9y agoJust as a tangent, the term for this is 'hypergamy' and one can find more research and writing on it searching for that.
- komali2 9y agoThe term "hypergamy" has been almost entirely co-oped by redpillers, in my experience.
- fwn 9y agoThe academic inaccuracies of some internet subculture doesn't make the phenomenon less adequate to mention. I think they probably just thought that the term hypergamy sounds cool, so they adopted it to appear scientific.
- komali2 9y ago>I think they probably just thought that the term hypergamy sounds cool, so they adopted it to appear scientific. I 100% agree with this, however the way they use the term does fit in perfectly with its definition.
- tfmatt 9y agoRedpillers? What is this? English is not my first language. Thank you
- zaccus 9y agoShort answer: it's a Reddit community full of idiots. More relevant answer in this case: it's a term frequently used as a cudgel to shut down conversation. It's a fallacy of association, and thus can be safely ignored. "I like dogs." "Oh yeah? So did Hitler!" That sort of thing.
- emodendroket 9y agoIf someone started talking about Lebensraum it'd probably be fair to say the idea is associated with Hitler.
- komali2 9y agoRedpillers are a group of people that have associated around the concept of "redpill." "Redpill" has come to mean many things on the internet, but all trace their origin to the movie The Matrix, in which the character Morpheus offers the character Neo two pills: one red, one blue. If neo takes the red pill, he will be pulled out of the Matrix (a computer simulation) and showed the real world. If he takes the blue pill, he will continue to exist in the computer simulation and can pretend it's the real world. In the case I was referring to (redpillers using "hypergamy"), "redpill" or "to be redpilled" means to believe that male/female dynamics are entirely sex-driven regardless of context (professional, sports, relationship, etc) and furthermore those dynamics are governed by rules established early in human evolution - for example, they believe women will only want to be in a sexual relationship with strong men that can provide for them, or that women universally prefer to work as little as possible while being provided for by men. A redpiller himself would probably take a mildly different definition than this - they would try to sell the community on its less politically incorrect values, such as the tenant that men should focus on self-improvement, bodily health, careers, etc. However, this is typical cult behavior, and the darker parts of redpill are what truly drive the community.