In a pre-nuclear age when every young man was molded into a contributing member of society not only in an economic sense but also a militaristic sense the understanding of a competitive edge was necessarily ingrained. Men used to understand that there are winners and there are losers in all aspects of life. You either win by any means necessary or get out of the way. However the entitlement of a peaceful life has eliminated that drive for success at any costs that gives rise to low-achieving and passive men just waiting for life to happen to them like a script.

Conflict is the one constant of the male experience up until recently and the inbalance in the sexual marketplace is the result of its absence. Women are the sexual selectors but in a current society it is solely aesthetic as that is the biological value men currently hold.

The manosphere is a response to the destruction of the one institution that actually leveled the playing field allowing men to increase their smp value. Any billy beta who manages to come back from war is instantly far more appealing due to the nature of there being a smaller competition base since some of his contemporaries didn’t come back as well as his visible proof of social value (women love a man in uniform). It is often mentioned that men are the disposable gender however in a current political climate it can be argued that no one is expendable and that everyone has the right to their existence however they want it. This has greatly diminished men’s bargaining power in the marketplace as it isn’t so much that men are disposable so much as it is that unsuccessful men are acceptable losses and those who survive proved their worth and reap the subsequent rewards of a stable marriage-based social order.