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Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by PaulDavisThe1st on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @02:00PM (#27040496)
> Just as most of the new income generated by later periods of economic liberalization go to the top 20%, so it is with the sexual market.

I don't even know what this means. What is "the new income" in "the sexual market"? What is "the top 20%" ? How does "income" "go to" any particular percentile in "the sexual market" ?

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Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by volkk on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @02:17PM (#27040804)
OP means that the top 20% of men are getting all of the attention in the dating market. it's a well known fact at this point. i think the numbers largely come from dating apps but they reflect real life pretty well (from my anecdotal experience)
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Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by at_a_remove on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @02:20PM (#27040848)
OKCupid used to have a post of sort of barebones statistical analysis of what men considered "average" versus women's outlook. It was ... enlightening.
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Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by imbnwa on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @06:14PM (#27043538)
That's a classic post from their defunct blog. Another one is Black women and Asian men are the least messaged.
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Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by standardUser on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @05:44PM (#27043277)
This would imply that the "bottom" 80% of men are not finding partners. When we look around at the world, either anecdotally or statistically, do we see 80% of men without partners? Not even close.
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Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by letonmorri on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @07:04PM (#27043952)
It seems about right if you are talking about dating apps.

- https://techcrunch.com/2009/11/18/okcupid-inbox-attractive/ - https://quillette.com/2019/03/12/attraction-inequality-and-t...

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Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by amanaplanacanal on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @06:15AM (#27048141)
I would suggest that just as we shouldn’t consider Twitter or Facebook as representative of the real world, the same should be applied to dating apps.
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