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#432 - Geoffrey Miller - An Evolutionary Psychologist's Dating Advice
Modern Wisdom
Simp Shaming Explained
Male resource commitment has a tragedy of the commons effect in the mating market. One man offers gifts and resources by the second date, it's harder for the other men to keep them in reserve until the fourth date is their special treat. This creates a downward spiral of young men feeling like they have to offer more and more gifts and go on ext increasingly extravagant dates just to stay in the mating game. simp shaming is a way of enforcing a more restrained resource giving norm on other men so that not all men have to become more resource committed than any of them would like. Men call women sluts, and men ar women call men simps all the time, but this game theory explanation makes
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