In the recent discussion of the viciously misogynistic Incel culture no one seems to have made the link to Human Capital theory. Gary Becker is quite explicit in The Marriage Market that Human Capital theory be applied to romantic relationships…
It’s fucking disgusting language but is how Incel’s discuss women. In fact, it was a phrase used by one of the previous Incel terrorists. But it’s also implicit in Becker’s ideas. How can you have a market in women without assigning differential values to them.
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Yep, their language of entitlement is grim. Does Becker assume we are all players in this market, with equal power?
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I imagine he’d say that tastes, etc. are given and take place outside the frame of analysis. That’s the usual way historical and socially created inequalities are naturalised in this kind of thinking.
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I’d prefer to just call this out as misogyny & toxic masculinity tbh. Assuming entitlement to women & expectation they should be sexually available to them.
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It certainly is about toxic masculinity and a backlash against feminism. I suppose I’m interested in why misogyny is taking these specific forms at this particular moment in history.
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I think it’s taken these forms for a very very long time. We just see it more widely available to read cos internet.
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