it is a high-risk high reward mating preference, thus is adopted by ambitious women who feel secure/safe. since society is very good at making women feel safe & protected now with laws & police, the preference towards bad boys has dramatically increased. I guarantee you that women did not prefer bad boys in the 1800s.
The evolutionary psychology that I have read has made the opposite claim, IIRC, that women are more interested in 'bad boys' the more unsafe and chaotic their environment is.
I think the only reason soyboys can get dates at all is because of the safety.
I saw this study a while back where researchers had periodically polled women over the last 100 years or so about which traits they valued most in men.
The "good man" traits dominated before the 1960s. The "bad boy" traits increasingly dominated after. Why?
easy no fault divorce made women more willing to pick high risk husbands.
feminism made women more ambitious & reckless.
feminism reduced women wanting kids & therefore caring about good father traits.
materialistic society made women chase the most "trophy" men, highly stimulating, who would cause envy among their friends.
These men know their value & routinely fuck women but refuse to commit to them. So while some of these women snag a "bad boy" & get what they wanted, the vast majority do not.
Then if they ride the cock carousel through their 20s & hit the wall, by their 30s they panic, shift towards risk-adverse, & suddenly shift their priority to financial security & stability = a "nice guy" with a good job.
The evolutionary psychology that I have read has made the opposite claim, IIRC, that women are more interested in 'bad boys' the more unsafe and chaotic their environment is.
I think the only reason soyboys can get dates at all is because of the safety.
I saw this study a while back where researchers had periodically polled women over the last 100 years or so about which traits they valued most in men.
The "good man" traits dominated before the 1960s. The "bad boy" traits increasingly dominated after. Why?
easy no fault divorce made women more willing to pick high risk husbands.
feminism made women more ambitious & reckless.
feminism reduced women wanting kids & therefore caring about good father traits.
materialistic society made women chase the most "trophy" men, highly stimulating, who would cause envy among their friends.
These men know their value & routinely fuck women but refuse to commit to them. So while some of these women snag a "bad boy" & get what they wanted, the vast majority do not.
Then if they ride the cock carousel through their 20s & hit the wall, by their 30s they panic, shift towards risk-adverse, & suddenly shift their priority to financial security & stability = a "nice guy" with a good job.
It's funny, this information also squares well with what I said. Disorder and crime increased markedly in the 1960s.
yes, the 1960s began the 1st lib wilding, roughly 1965 to 1970.
we are now in the 2nd lib wilding, 2012 to present, hopefully the end point being in 2024-25.
It is always said that the wilder the revolutions, the quicker they burn themselves out. That is not the case this time around, unfortunately.