The concept of barriers to entry is an economics theory that relates the difficulty of entering a certain market. It involves examining the various obstacles that exist that hinder a new firm from entering a given market.

Culturally speaking, barriers to entry are one of the main reasons why society as a whole has managed to advance. Without existing barriers that weed out participants, any person would be able to craft whatever piece of mediocrity they come up with, slap a label on it, and market it as art, or a creation that's worthwhile.

There has been a progressive lowering of barriers to entry across the entire spectrum of society for the past several decades. Owing to a number of initiatives and shifts in technology, the requirements that previously existed that kept out the average individual have shifted massively. How else do you explain why nonsense like Fifty Shades of Grey or Twilight is so successful? Or how it takes virtually nothing except some act of self-exposure to get your own "reality" TV show? The argument that springs to mind is these products are specifically aimed at a certain demographic(women and men with no lives), but that actually re-enforces the point. If all it takes to become one of the best-selling authors of all time is that you push buttons--never mind the actual quality of whatever you're producing--then society can only ever go downwards.

On a personal level, this obsession with inclusion has manifested itself in an interesting way. Fat acceptance and the praising of sluts and open hypergamy are directly aimed at lowering a man's barriers to entry in his personal life and including all those women who felt left out because they didn't meet the standards of attraction.

It's a covert and overt means of making you accept sub-standard fare simply because it's what's being peddled. Rather than the stigma of a hundred years ago, single mothers and sluts are now heaped with praise and somehow held up as paragons of female strength and empowerment, whose attention and love is a privilege that you have to earn by being a "real man."

How do you resist this lowering in your personal life? By employing that beautiful mono-syllable of power, " no". Just say no. No to being shamed into dating overweight women. No to marrying single mothers. No to being cowed into accepting the narrative of mediocrity. You will not be told what you should be attracted to. Your standards exist for a reason, and no amount of BP imposition should ever be allowed to change that.

Keep your power. After all, no means no,right?