Now, I wrote that reply to you before his response blog. If he could be clearer about how society should "assist" men who can't find girlfriends, maybe I'd need to reassess what I said. But it did seem to me to contradict his message of personal responsibility.
(I doubt it's true personally, but that's the argument he made) Conversely, if marriage is normal (as in most of European history), say 80% of people are marrying, then even if you're failing now, you can believe you have a reasonable chance.
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This isn't even original, it's fairly widely thought and discussed. Again, it's the difference between "X must be given sex, now" and "X should have reasonable hope that sexual success is attainable for him". One is ludicrous and impossible, other was a norm within living memory.
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But like I said in my other reply, that marriage rate didn't just happen, it was contingent on the division of paid labour between sexes, and the resulting social mobility of women.
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And of course other factors like religious adherence.
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Well, he has a lot to say about religion too. Possibly his idea is we can have a "rediscovery of spirituality" or some such guff that means we will all choose monogamy in spite of female economic equality.
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