The kind of self-hatred that's a positive signal on an individual level is maladaptive on a civilizational scale. An individual who hates herself and thinks that everything about herself is bad and sinful is signalling selflessness and is probably going to make a good wife.
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I know many women who obsess over recycling and composting and environmentalism, far beyond any utilitarian need for it. Why are they doing this? Simple. They're sending out a costly and accurate signal that they're not a princess.
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Veganism is cut from the same cloth. The whole point of vegan food is that it's disgusting. The day that synthetic meat and dairy becomes as good as the real stuff is the day that veganism as a social movement dies, as it will no longer have a costly signal attached.
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Climate change & the Greta Thunberg Cult is the same thing again. Why is there no interest in geoengineering? Because that would take away the signalling value of climate change activism. The point of CC activism is to campaign for damaging and regressive moves as a signal.
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BLM protests full of white unmarried women? But only rich white women or those from upper class backgrounds; not white women who are from poor families or deprived areas. It's a reliable signal of class, and that's why it exists.pic.twitter.com/UlnSkuukgY
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Most of these are on point but this one misses the point. Women want to be around violent conflict because that's part of their unconscious mating drive. Some group of men is going to win and will take her as a war bride is what her genes are telling her.
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