uair01
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There are reports of links between sexual inequality (sexual Gini index) and incel and jihadi violence. Very speculative of course:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/opinion/sex-shame-incels-jihadists-minassian.html
And economists have used this measure in practice:
https://quillette.com/2019/03/12/attraction-inequality-and-the-dating-economy/
The economist Robin Hanson has written some fascinating articles that use the cold and inhuman logic economists are famous for to compare inequality of income to inequality of access to sex. If we follow a few steps of his reasoning, we can imagine the world of dating as something like an economy, in which people possess different amounts of attractiveness (the dating economy’s version of dollars) and those with more attractiveness can access more and better romantic experiences (the dating economy’s version of consumer goods). If we think of dating in this way, we can use the analytical tools of economics to reason about romance in the same way we reason about economies.
And there is a lot of frustration about sexual inequality on incel websites. With depressing graphics. I can see why Jordan Peterson has such a large following:
https://incels.wiki/w/Hypergamy
I have no fixed opinion on this, but the fact that the discussion exists at all is new and fascinating. There is a lot of bickering around this subject,
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/opinion/sex-shame-incels-jihadists-minassian.html
And economists have used this measure in practice:
https://quillette.com/2019/03/12/attraction-inequality-and-the-dating-economy/
The economist Robin Hanson has written some fascinating articles that use the cold and inhuman logic economists are famous for to compare inequality of income to inequality of access to sex. If we follow a few steps of his reasoning, we can imagine the world of dating as something like an economy, in which people possess different amounts of attractiveness (the dating economy’s version of dollars) and those with more attractiveness can access more and better romantic experiences (the dating economy’s version of consumer goods). If we think of dating in this way, we can use the analytical tools of economics to reason about romance in the same way we reason about economies.
And there is a lot of frustration about sexual inequality on incel websites. With depressing graphics. I can see why Jordan Peterson has such a large following:
https://incels.wiki/w/Hypergamy
I have no fixed opinion on this, but the fact that the discussion exists at all is new and fascinating. There is a lot of bickering around this subject,
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