I don’t care about interracial dating. Yes it’s massively over represented on tv but if a man and a woman legitimately love each other more power to them. I’ll talk to any woman who is interested. This woman is just jealous and good grief will she shut up about slavery.
I’m mostly with you, but I did think of an interesting parallel: free trade. Does free trade benefit all nations equally? Clearly not. Some nations have little in the way of valuable natural or human capital, which are some of the things required to take advantage of unrestricted free trade.
Now think about the dating market and sexual market value. Think about matchmaking websites. The least popular female profiles? Black women, and it ain’t close. So why would black women support the “unrestricted free trade” of an open dating culture when they stand to be the biggest losers?
Same thing goes for men in general. For us, a total open dating market means 80% of women having sex with 20% of men. No intact families, no motivation to provide or advance. Just chads pump-and-dumping all the women while the common man plays video games in his lonely apartment/tomb. That is a bad set of circumstances for most men and (despite their protests to the contrary) most women. So how do you oppose the rise of such circumstances? Oh, no big deal: you just have to explicitly denounce the sexual liberation of women. Because that opinion flies in today’s society. About as well as opposing interracial dating, right?
Protectionism makes sense for those whom it protects. I can entertain arguments for and against such behavior. Certainly, we shouldn’t outright prevent interracial dating. Does a taboo against it, however, arguably benefit certain groups? Should their concerns and interests be automatically ignored?
So true about internet dating. I’ve tried with that but you are right. An average looking woman will still get a ton of attention while me as a guy who is average at nerdy gets like one response for every 100 messages sent.
When I was in 9th grade I figured I’d have a better chance by talking to any woman that was interested
I don’t care about interracial dating. Yes it’s massively over represented on tv but if a man and a woman legitimately love each other more power to them. I’ll talk to any woman who is interested. This woman is just jealous and good grief will she shut up about slavery.
I’m mostly with you, but I did think of an interesting parallel: free trade. Does free trade benefit all nations equally? Clearly not. Some nations have little in the way of valuable natural or human capital, which are some of the things required to take advantage of unrestricted free trade.
Now think about the dating market and sexual market value. Think about matchmaking websites. The least popular female profiles? Black women, and it ain’t close. So why would black women support the “unrestricted free trade” of an open dating culture when they stand to be the biggest losers?
Same thing goes for men in general. For us, a total open dating market means 80% of women having sex with 20% of men. No intact families, no motivation to provide or advance. Just chads pump-and-dumping all the women while the common man plays video games in his lonely apartment/tomb. That is a bad set of circumstances for most men and (despite their protests to the contrary) most women. So how do you oppose the rise of such circumstances? Oh, no big deal: you just have to explicitly denounce the sexual liberation of women. Because that opinion flies in today’s society. About as well as opposing interracial dating, right?
Protectionism makes sense for those whom it protects. I can entertain arguments for and against such behavior. Certainly, we shouldn’t outright prevent interracial dating. Does a taboo against it, however, arguably benefit certain groups? Should their concerns and interests be automatically ignored?
So true about internet dating. I’ve tried with that but you are right. An average looking woman will still get a ton of attention while me as a guy who is average at nerdy gets like one response for every 100 messages sent.
When I was in 9th grade I figured I’d have a better chance by talking to any woman that was interested