BucketCrab
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In nature, there are generally two types of ways in which animals choose their partners: Intrasexual Selection and Intersexual Selection.
Intrasexual Selection (literally: among one's sex) requires male specimens to fight for dominance. The stronger male defeats their opponent and thus gains
access to the females, and can propagate his genes. The females have no say in this process, they simply accept whoever is the winner.
Intersexual Selection (literally: between sexes) requires male specimens to put on a display for the females. This can be varied, from displaying colourful plumage, to having the biggest and prettiest tail, to performing a mating dance or even by building her a nest. The males show off their best features, and the females then decide who gets to reproduce and propagate their genes.
Now, let's have a look at humans. In order to illustrate the point, let's imagine these two guys fight. We'll call the first guy Indian and the secon guy Prettyboy.
Indian wins. He absolutely destroys Prettyboy and is the absolute winner of the "intrasexual" bout.
What would the average woman in her most fertile age range (18 to 30) do?
Would she immediately flock to the winner and strongly desire having sex with him, or would she nurse the loser in an attempt to catch his attention?
Here is the issue with this line of reasoning: it isn't genuine, and it ignores too many aspects of what females really do in real life.
If humans truly were a species that employs INTRASEXUAL selection, physical dominance would be all that women are interested in. This would trump looks, money, and talent of any kind. It would be all about who wins fights, and nothing else - and this simply has no basis in reality.
INTERSEXUAL selection is centered around things that human females have been shown, time and time again, to value a lot higher than fighting success:
How many females are fans of powerlifting, and have posters of Eddie Hall in their bedrooms they masturbate to?
I'll tell you how many: basically none. Now ask yourself these questions about beautiful actors and talented musicians.
Things change quite a lot then, right? It's not fighting power that makes a man attractive.
Do you think it's a coincidence that singers who are both good looking, famous and talented have always been pussy magnets?
They're so mind-blowingly popular because they literally hit all three requirements for INTERSEXUAL selection:
Thus, the BEST man is the man who can defeat all other men. Strength and dominance over other men is the only thing that really matters ("mogging").
women think in terms of INTERSEXUAL selection.
Thus, the BEST man is the man that simply has more to offer than the other men in the realms of appearance, talent, and providing.
Intrasexual Selection (literally: among one's sex) requires male specimens to fight for dominance. The stronger male defeats their opponent and thus gains
access to the females, and can propagate his genes. The females have no say in this process, they simply accept whoever is the winner.
Intersexual Selection (literally: between sexes) requires male specimens to put on a display for the females. This can be varied, from displaying colourful plumage, to having the biggest and prettiest tail, to performing a mating dance or even by building her a nest. The males show off their best features, and the females then decide who gets to reproduce and propagate their genes.
Now, let's have a look at humans. In order to illustrate the point, let's imagine these two guys fight. We'll call the first guy Indian and the secon guy Prettyboy.
Indian wins. He absolutely destroys Prettyboy and is the absolute winner of the "intrasexual" bout.
What would the average woman in her most fertile age range (18 to 30) do?
Would she immediately flock to the winner and strongly desire having sex with him, or would she nurse the loser in an attempt to catch his attention?
Now I already know what you're thinking. You may be tempted to say that this example is too radical, that it doesn't adequately represent reality. You may think that women absolutely value fighting capabilities in males, but they also want dimorphic traits such as height and muscles, and not just "a winner". You may also think that if you replaced Indian with someone like this:
Then everything would change, and the aforementioned women would flock to this guy instead. We'll call him Manly Man.
Now you have someone that isn't hideous-looking, but who also has height, muscles, dimorphism. And that trumps whatever appeal Prettyboy had.
Sure, Prettyboy wins when compared to Indian, even if he loses the bout. But once he's up against someone that's not ugly as sin, Manly Man just wins every single time, and he wouldn't even need to physically beat Prettyboy: it would just be immediately clear to everyone that Manly Man would win every single time.
And thus, this proves that humans are a species strongly correlated with INTRASEXUAL selection, but only as long as the males show sufficient dimorphism.
Here is the issue with this line of reasoning: it isn't genuine, and it ignores too many aspects of what females really do in real life.
If humans truly were a species that employs INTRASEXUAL selection, physical dominance would be all that women are interested in. This would trump looks, money, and talent of any kind. It would be all about who wins fights, and nothing else - and this simply has no basis in reality.
INTERSEXUAL selection is centered around things that human females have been shown, time and time again, to value a lot higher than fighting success:
- Physical appearance (the peacock's feathers)
- Artistic/Musical/Dancing skills (mating dances)
- Ability to provide (nest building)
How many females are fans of powerlifting, and have posters of Eddie Hall in their bedrooms they masturbate to?
I'll tell you how many: basically none. Now ask yourself these questions about beautiful actors and talented musicians.
Things change quite a lot then, right? It's not fighting power that makes a man attractive.
Do you think it's a coincidence that singers who are both good looking, famous and talented have always been pussy magnets?
They're so mind-blowingly popular because they literally hit all three requirements for INTERSEXUAL selection:
- Physical appearance (their beauty)
- Artistic/Musical/Dancing skills (their music)
- Ability to provide (their success, fame and status)
Thus, the BEST man is the man who can defeat all other men. Strength and dominance over other men is the only thing that really matters ("mogging").
women think in terms of INTERSEXUAL selection.
Thus, the BEST man is the man that simply has more to offer than the other men in the realms of appearance, talent, and providing.
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