There is no feminist solution to the fertility crisis

Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2025-07-09 23:55

Article here. Excerpt:

'The reality is that women mate hypergamously, meaning they only find men “appealing” if they make as much money or more than they do. Women with college degrees prefer men with college degrees or higher education. They will even marry men without college degrees, but only if they make more money than they do. But women simply do not find men who make less than they do appealing.

And over the past 50 years, the percentage of women who outearn men has risen substantially. According to the Congressional Research Service, the real wage of the average woman has risen almost 30% while the real wage of the average man has decreased by 3%. Now, for college-educated men, the story is different. The average real wage of men with a college degree has risen substantially. But only 37% of men have a college degree, and that number is falling. At the same time, the percentage of women with a college degree already surpasses men (39%) and continues to rise.'

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The author's solution for raising "male wages" is a pipe dream. There is no fix for this under current conditions even if you double men's wages. It'll have ZERO effect.

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Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2025-07-10 00:02

The problem is not just hypergamy; that's been there as long as humans have been primates. Rather, it's the current irrational hypergamy on steroids, where the average woman (who is now a 3 out of 10 vs. women of the 1970-s and before modern obesity) thinks she is an 8 and that she rates a man who is a 10.

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Submitted by NobleDragon on Thu, 2025-07-10 17:49