It is often said in the popular media that women are “oppressed”. At the same time various publications bemoan the fact that women can’t find “good men” anymore.
If we combine these two phenomena with the supposition that women are hypergamous we come to an interesting contradiction: If women are looking for men with higher status than themselves and can’t find enough of them, especially at the higher levels, that would mean that the average status of women is higher than that of men (I’m assuming a Bell-curve distribution of status). If women are oppressed, however, one would expect women’s status to be lower on average.
Conclusion: women are not oppressed in modern Western society.
November 20th, 2006
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Young people in developed countries unhappy
From the article:
Indians are the happiest overall and Japanese the most miserable.
Interesting that young people in a very patriarchal culture are the happiest, while young people in a culture with very feminine values are the most miserable.
MTVNI said this figure was dragged down by young people in the developed world, including those in Britain and the United States where fewer than 30 percent of young people said they were happy with the way things were.
Two of the most feminist (if not the most feminist) nations in the West. Strange that the article doesn’t mention that, isn’t it?
Also noteworthy is the inability of people to properly assess risk. People in the UK are as afraid of terrorism as of getting cancer. This gives the media, the ruling class and pressure groups inordinate power to manipulate the masses by playing to their fears. One wonders whether commercial media improve this situation.
November 20th, 2006
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