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#660 William Costello: The Psychology of Involuntary Celibates (Incels), and Modern Mating

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The Obligation of Success

I call this for men, the obligation of success. So I say if a woman, a modern woman now can leave school and decide to work full-time, part-time, or not at all, and still have a chance at getting the high status mate, a man cannot do that. He has achieved success, achieved success, or achieved success. It just is not really a viable option in the same way. If nothing else works, you have the option of trying to mate down the attractiveness scale. But like we said, some men, when we talked about auto-insale simply have two higher standards. There's no guarantee that women will want them still. They already had

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