The ego epidemic: How more and more of us women have an inflated sense of our own fabulousness (2009)

plxxx · 2019-09-11T10:26:50+00:00

I come across way too many women like this who don’t really have much to offer and turn down any half decent guy but then sit at home on a Saturday night whining about being single.

30dirtyfingers · 2019-09-11T10:33:57+00:00

yeah, its true. That fragile male ego thing? Its only fragile when its based on nothing substantial. Most women's egos are based off of male validation or the feminist ideology.....none of which are substantial.

Tell a woman that she isnt beautiful and amazing and watch how they respond.

emd9629 · 2019-09-11T10:48:02+00:00

This was pre-dating apps too. Those have made the problem much worse.

beachbbqlover · 2019-09-11T10:49:05+00:00

The majority of sex workers can go onto reddit and post a picture of themselves and get instant validation from the ~5000 guys on at any given moment looking for porn.

Fact is, most guys would happily line up to run train on a sufficiently hot chick.

But basically if every man they meet goes "hey beautiful, sit on my face", massaging that ego to get in their pants, they never realize that's exactly what it is.

colcrnch · 2019-09-11T10:52:03+00:00

Great comment in the article:

ALL women (western, non-western, traditional, feminist) objectify men for status/power/money. ALL women are only attracted to (and only respect) men who have GREATER amounts of these things than they themselves have.

In my experience, feminist women are the worst when it comes to narcissism and obsession with status in themselves and in potential mates. They usually have no plans to equally share anything (especially money) with any man.

Also, youthful looks in men are not as big a factor in female attraction as feminist like to make it out to be, and most women are not attracted to men who are overly concerned with their own looks. However, this is the opposite in the case of male attraction to women; for evolutionary and reproductive reasons feminine desirability is inextricably linked to youthful beauty. Men don't care much about a woman's status/money/power if she is not young and pretty ; these are the women who have the most natural power over male emotions.

HonestyOverCivility · 2019-09-11T12:13:18+00:00

Two Factors:

Social media has fed woman’s egos, made them feel like celebrities, and facilitated a giant “you go girl!” Circle jerk
Sheng Nu, which is a Chinese term that translates to “leftover women”. Simply put, a woman who’s still single beyond 30 probably has more red flags than a rowdy soccer match.

sorryforthelifestory · 2019-09-11T09:18:32+00:00

Interesting article from 2009. You can try and visit the article now and it strangely does not seem to exist. I wonder what that's about.

ikarianarsi · 2019-09-11T11:28:17+00:00

It's gotten way worse in the Instagram generation

shankzilla · 2019-09-11T12:08:14+00:00

Short story: I was in vitamin shoppe yesterday. I was asked if I needed help with finding anything in the store by a lady in her mid to late 30's. I said "yes I need help finding a shaker bottle". She showed me a couple and I asked her specifically for the superhero ones ( cuz they got the little straw thingies in them). I came upon the thor one and said "I'd bet you like the Chris Hemsworth one". To my shock she didnt know who Chris Hemsworth was. I stated that he was an good looking actor that played thor (no homo). She looked him up on her tablet...and said "ehh hes not my type, his face is a little fat and I dont like the scruff". Gentleman....a retail employee....who smelled of cigarettes...and was in her mid to late thirties, called chris Hemsworth face fat and not her type....

Bitches be trippin.

Warren_Bateman · 2019-09-11T14:36:46+00:00

They tend to be in their 30s, and there is a wide discrepancy between how they perceive themselves and how others see them.

Sounds almost like some sort of metaphorical threshold is crossed in their 30s

thewrecker8 · 2019-09-11T16:05:49+00:00

They're starting them younger and younger. I saw this morning on a news channel that they're making a new monopoly game called "missnopoly". Where the women earn more than the men and bunch of other shit I tuned out while they were explaining it. Help make young girls realize that they're the true leaders of the world I guess. Lol

scissor_me_timbers00 · 2019-09-11T17:41:46+00:00

As others said, I think that just makes it all the more incredible man. Because women’s egos have ballooned even since then. With tinder and social media like Instagram where every girl can entertain the delusion of being the protagonist in her own little reality tv show. And the nonstop thirst and pedestalization.

Also ill second that this probably would not make it past the editor today. Anything critical of women, even in the most reasonable way, goes against the radical feminism of journalism rooms.

X-Trem0 · 2019-09-12T12:23:22+00:00

They are only attracted to men which have more power/status/money than themselves.

Their perceived level of status is much higher than what it really is.

Talk to me about unreachable standards.

MattyAnon · 2019-09-11T10:25:26+00:00

Oh jeez....... 2009. Come on, let's post something from this decade at least.

[deleted] · 2019-09-11T18:11:36+00:00

This has been posted before!

aerobank · 2019-09-12T00:54:22+00:00

on this subreddit, people always complain about how entitled women are. men should be taking a hard look in the mirror though - why are YOU entitled to sleep with beautiful women?

honestly, if you could go out and sleep with any alpha woman throughout your 20s w/o consequence, you'd feel entitled to an alpha LTR too. don't wish it were easier; wish you were better

Title	The ego epidemic: How more and more of us women have an inflated sense of our own fabulousness (2009)
Author	sorryforthelifestory
Upvotes	120
Comments	43
Date	September 11, 2019 9:08 AM UTC (6 years ago)
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