As we progress, fitfully, towards an increasingly post-scarcity world, many argue that men are inherently less well adapted to such an environment, and will likely continue to underperform women.

In addition, men are increasingly less needed by women and have to be 'wanted' for there to be monogamous association. Many argue that a female sexual selectivity that is finally allowed to manifest its full intensity, freed from the need to make many of the compromises it used to have to make, is simply incompatible with the paradigm of widespread monogamy: not enough men will make the cut.

Finally, there is the idea that males, or at least far too many males, are by their nature inherently dangerous and predatory to women. And when it is not an active, dangerous predation, it is a passive tendency to drain and be an unfair burden on their female partners. Conversely, beyond what sex women might desire, men do not offer that much to most women in terms of pure companionship benefits. Most women claim that their female relationships are deeper and more meaningful than their male ones, and sex aside, all they really need. The reverse does not seem to be nearly as true for men.

So the question is: Is there hope that some sort of socialization can arise that will make associating with men on anything like the terms of widespread monogamy in women's interests? Or does this hope just run against too much biological hardwiring? (And by hope, I do not mean some cataclysmic civilization crash that resets technology and the environment.)