The trans trend (no disrespect, just empirically it’s trending) is probably due, in part, to the declining monagamy norm. As the sexually liberal mating economy creates winner-take-all dynamics, more biological males hate being male. Add female empowerment norms, & voila.
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The winner take all mentality is extremely obviously in worlds where female sexuality is still highly regulated, but that's a big recent change; we used to have only polygamy, now it's free for all polyamory.
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I think another part of it (no matter how small or large) is the idea of sexual novelty being more and more in need. autogynephilia then becomes a corner some go to/and or explore since trans is a “thing”
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Yeah but this doesn't necessarily mean this translates. I've been in large, near-exclusively-poly communities before and it didn't translate; the hottest men would have mostly just a few girlfriends (and the hottest women a few boyfriends), but not 80% of them
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You both seem to agree that a "winner-take-all dynamic" has at least been created, if not on the cause. What exactly does that mean? What patterns/behaviors are you seeing that cause you to believe that dynamic exists?
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The fact that more women initiate divorces than men do. It's not that are literal masses of polygamous female-controlled harems in the US, but that dating optionality has been transferred almost unilaterally to women.https://www.asanet.org/press-center/press-releases/women-more-likely-men-initiate-divorces-not-non-marital-breakups …
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Winner take all effects would be more prevalent in societies where women have a large degree of freedom over who they date. It's written in the statistical nature of our revealed preferences. Today's dating market is unprecedented in history.https://twitter.com/SeloSlav/status/1301494682497712129?s=19 …
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Ancient polygnous mating structures seem very different to me. Conquering warlords generated a lot of entropy. The ratio of such entropy generation to harem accumulation would have been massive by today's standards.
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