So in the past month, I've somehow ran into more than thread with a poll / beauty scale. From those, I've realized that I must have low standards in women or something.

Women I've consistently rated as pretty cute or at least above average, were ranked as average at best by most others.

Maybe I just have low standards and need to recalibrate. I judge on health, symmetry, youthfulness, etc, and forgive a lot. I.e. "She's not wearing makeup. Not a fair comparison." / "Meh, this pic has bad lighting. The fault goes to the cameraman for that." / "Her legs would look longer with the right heels." / "Looks like she couldn't afford a good pushup bra." / etc.

I don't think it's just my low standards though. Logically there must be more to it.

Rpers claim to care about age, health (not obese), beauty, and even attitude (entitlement, hypergamy, faithfulness, submissiveness, etc). Consider the following though

  • Most women are not 18-30. Millenials are definitely less than 25% of the population.
  • Last I checked almost 75% of Americans are overweight, and over a third are obese.
  • As the gender gap in wages closed, more women are in a superior financial position relative to men than ever. Many rpers prefer male breadwinner households and at the same time there's always the concern about hypergamy. This eliminates about half of women for them.

Taking those general thoughts into account, a lot of women end up being eliminated as options. The ones that are left over a relatively small amount. Just like the belief that only 20% or less of men are visible to women (due to height, income, status, etc), the same is applicable in the reverse where a huge number of women cease to be viable from a common rp mindset (due to age/fertility, weight, beauty, socioeconomics, etc).

Given this point, the viable options among women have every reason to feel entitled.

I think this is something that more mature rpers do understand, from what I've seen. It's mainly angry newbies who are complaining about entitlement. HOWEVER, it does seem like rper tenets are contributing to this, due to the high emphasis on factors that actively contribute to female scarcity.