Are Incels A Threat To Society? - William Costello

Compared to 2002, men overall had the same number of partners in 2013, but the top 20% of men had a 25% increase in sexual partners, and the top 5% of men had an even more dramatic 38% increase. It really is that kind of effective polygyny towards the top th- the minority of men th- the chads are actually cleaning up. (laughs)

"A growing number of women are choosing not to have kids, and as a result, are advancing in their careers and using their wealth to buy property and travel more." This is an article by Bloomberg, I think. It came out of their Business Week edition. "Ashley Marrero isn't married and doesn't have kids, and she has a message for women just like her, you can still have it all. 'I love my life and feel very fulfilled,' says Marrero, who froze her eggs in 2018 to keep her options open. The 43-year-old feels a deep sense of satisfaction from her job as a sales representative for a maker of medical devices, which brings her into contact with patients, and she relishes all of the lifestyle and financial freedoms that come with being a single, child-free woman in a well-paying job. Marrero, who was married for four years before getting divorced in 2008, enjoys an enviable degree of financial independence. The West Village resident owns her own apartment she bought in 2019 for around $900,000 and then renovated, and in June, she closed on a summer home in New Jersey's Long Beach Island with her sister Christina, who is a few years older and also single with no kids. Ashley figures she's taken 10 trips in the last 12 months and often friends with a large group of about 25 people who are largely unmarried and don't have children." Those trips, at 43, sound like they suck.

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I do not want to go on that trip, frankly.

Yeah, so everything you just described there is kind of like a- a symptom of what, uh, I would call the wider mating crisis, and it seems to be like a- a cultural kind of prioritizing of the male default of economic success, the kind of girlboss, lean-in kind of culture seems to be set up as what a- the vision for success for women, uh, tends to be, and yet you have a lot of even corporate giants kind of getting in on this. Um, a few years ago, you had Morgan Stanley, the investment bankers put out a report that forecasts that 45% of prime working-age women between the ages of 25 and 44 will be single and childless, uh, by 2030, the largest share, uh, in history. And, uh, it's not entirely obvious to me that this is in women's best interest. I mean, I'm pretty libertarian in my sensibilities about, you know, freedom of choice for whatever someone wants to do with their life, um, but i- i- it seems to me like a- you can see the kind of corporate interest in, uh, opening up more worker drones for 60-hour work weeks, uh, that, you know, the- the workplace now, women are crushing it. It's a brain-based economy rather than a brawn-based economy. So, uh, that- that seems to be in their interests. And it's weird, it's like- it's almost like Huxley, and it's like Brave New World. Ha- have you read that, Chris?