The imbalance in the sex ratio can, when caused by high rates of incarceration, can shift the bargaining power away from women and lead to higher risky sexual behavior in equilibrium. See Johnson and Raphael. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/597102 …
I wonder if lonely men go into these incel communities and come out radicalized, or if they were like that before. To be so utterly alone in life and then on top of that to have a peer group constantly telling you that women and feminism are to blame is probably contagious.
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Why are "utterly alone" and "involuntarily celibate" synonyms?
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Sorry, it doesn't require that, and I need to clarify my thoughts. Let's say marriage markets are balanced. Then why is someone an "incel"? Can't be because there's not enough people. Suggests it's bc of search costs, thin markets or likely attributes that handicap on the market.
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right, and those demand different responses: search costs and thin markets are problems we'd like to correct. a "handicap" is more complicated -- is it appearance? personality? something else?
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The handicap has to be really complicated, bc every time I try to write something, I think to myself that therapy could probably help that person. Thing is, if a person gets psyched out, they withdraw from the marriage market, which actually changes the allocations and thinness
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