Washington U. Prof: AI Girlfriends Are Ruining a Generation of Men
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In a broad generalized sense sure. But in the dating game, its not. Because the win conditions are pretty easy to define and there are clearly defined losers. Being rich, being strong, being dangerous, being charismatic. They've always been a winning trait through all of history for acquiring women and if you went against a guy in a competition (directly or by comparison) you would be a loser to those looking.
The only difference now is that there were consequences for women who gambled and lost. Premarital sex, children out of wedlock, divorced, sluttery in general. All of them were basically a millstone to be labeled with. So while they (or really their dad picking for them) used to have to settle for "losers" who needed time and experience to become men worth something, now they can just keep chomping at the ankles of the top 20% of men forever until eventually they catch one by sheer luck.
Or waste all their youth and value until the clocking ticking causes a panic attack and they pick up a retarded simp.
Just to be clear I completely agree on your broad point about balancing mechanisms for men. A lot of great men were "losers" at some time in their lives.
My point is to add that there are, or were, many different win conditions, and this applies to dating too. You can be Casanova scoring multiple 9s or a schlubby dude that marries a nice mid girl and both of those are "winners." The schlub isn't necessarily a "loser" at any point and historically, many of them weren't. Only in the social media landscape, when he's pitted against Fabio, is he a loser.
I don't disagree with anything here. But, I think it was just as big an issue throughout history that "hot guy came through town, banged a bunch of wives" that made those men "losers" just as they would now. Heck, many famous pieces of writing and characters were just that as a concept.
The only difference now is that they don't need to wait for Fabio to maybe come through town, there are 15 Fabios standing in front of her (on the screen).