Re:Public-Health Puzzle: Young People Having Less Sex, Contr...
by RangerScience on Saturday October 19, 2019 @03:29PM
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> Genuine question: why are the people who subscribe to this world view predominantly white men?
Going theory:
If you are constantly told "you are the most attractive category" and yet your personal experience is of not being attractive, you will wonder why that is.
If you have underlying assumptions about the attractiveness of certain qualities (wealth, success, etc), and yet having them is not felt to impact your personal dating experience, you will wonder why that is.
If you are told that your demographic category means that you _should_ be successful simply by virtue of being in that category, and yet you feel you are not, you will wonder why that is.
Going theory:
If you are constantly told "you are the most attractive category" and yet your personal experience is of not being attractive, you will wonder why that is.
If you have underlying assumptions about the attractiveness of certain qualities (wealth, success, etc), and yet having them is not felt to impact your personal dating experience, you will wonder why that is.
If you are told that your demographic category means that you _should_ be successful simply by virtue of being in that category, and yet you feel you are not, you will wonder why that is.
After that, I think, simple https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DB6wbyrMugYMK5o6a/correspond...