4/ The idea, if you haven’t encountered it is treating sex like an issue of supply and demand. Men want sex more ergo, women set the price.
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4a/ I wrote a little about this here:http://www.doctornerdlove.com/the-economics-of-sex/ …
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5/ Long story short: Women hold out for
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6/ I mean beyond the basic dehumanizing aspect, it also sets men and women up as antagonists/opponents.
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6a/ (Notice it’s always straight men and women. This never seems to come up WRT LGBT relationships.)
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7/ Now, I’m gonna be going into this in more detail on this week’s Paging Dr. NerdLove but there’s an inherent flaw in this market metaphor.
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8/ Y’know. Beyond the obvious ickiness and sex-negative attitudes that manage to ignore a wide spectrum of sexual desires and agency.
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9/ The “market price of sex” is predicated on the idea that it’s strict supply and demand where masculine desire sets the price.
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10/ The “supply” is “controlled” by women, for whom sex is cheap, therefore profit from setting the market price high as it will go.
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11/ In fact, you’ll see folks on Incel forums talking about how to deflate the market value. Usually via sexbots and MGTOW bullshit.
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Frankly, I see Incel fuckwits talk about MUCH worse things than that.
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