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Women Want to be Owned

Women’s mating choices are a male-driven affair.

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Mar 27, 2025
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Women’s mating choices are a male-driven affair.

Hypergamy is a central tenet of both Evolutionary Psychology and the manosphere. Women will discard or ignore lower-value men in favor of higher-status men. As Jordan Benzo Peterson puts it, women tend to marry “up or across” the social status hierarchy. But there is an essential problem with hypergamy. It’s not that it’s sexist – rather, it’s not sexist enough.

The manosphere also claims that women are hypo-agentic. Women are passive and innocent, while men make all the important decisions. This contradicts hypergamy. Women can’t have total control over a relationship and simultaneously have absolutely no control at the same time.

Take a look at history. Women marrying up was…

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