Attraction Inequality and the Dating Economy

&gt; He reported that heterosexual females faced a Gini coefficient of 0.324, while heterosexual males faced a much higher Gini coefficient of 0.542. So neither sex has complete equality: in both cases, there are some “wealthy” people with access to more romantic experiences and some “poor” who have access to few or none. But while the situation for women is something like an economy with some poor, some middle class, and some millionaires, the situation for men is closer to a world with a small number of super-billionaires surrounded by huge masses who possess almost nothing.<p>My god. What the PUA and MRA communities have been saying all along...

This is an outstanding article with life-changing insights. Everyone should read it. Certainly explains a lot of awful and baffling things I&#x27;ve seen and experienced.<p>Unfortunately, though it lays out the problem clearly, it doesn&#x27;t present much in the way of solutions, and indeed, there may be few good ones. It may be that sex and mating is ultimately just a Kobayashi Maru, not so much to be performed successfully as with a dignified, sad grace.