Alternative titles: Where TRP gets it wrong, or The Parable of Megaloceras.

I drew my inspiration for this post partly from comments made by /u/andreas-mgtow and /u/Deltawon in this thread. Andreas:

Men are no longer being selected in Nature by true fitness but instead by whatever current fad wimminz fancy. What the RP calls a "Chad" today bears no resemblance to what a successful male has looked like in evolutionary terms.

Deltawon:

They seek out the genetics that maximized fitness in the ancestral environment where our subconscious desires evolved.

My background: I'm a recent Zoology graduate. One of the courses I took for my degree was a class about Evolution, and in that class, I learned two very important things--the difference between natural and sexual selection, and the story of the giant deer Megaloceras.

Firstly, sexual selection and natural selection are similar, but still different. Natural selection tends to choose individuals with higher overall fitness, while sexual selection chooses attractive mates. For the most part, the two forces work in balance on a species, but if they start to work against each other, well, the results ain't pretty. Example: A male peacock's long tail is cumbersome and unwieldy, making flight difficult and he is therefore more likely to be eaten by predators or suffer some other mishap. He has lower fitness. Natural selection would weed this trait out...except females prefer those big tails, so sexual selection overrides natural selection. The lower-fitness individual gets to reproduce.

So what do you get when sexual selection overrides natural selection and allows lower-fitness individuals to reproduce for millennia? Meet the giant deer Megaloceras, otherwise known as the Irish elk. A prime example of what happens when sexual selection completely dominates a species's evolution. Female preference selected for larger and larger antlers and, more bizarrely, for antlers with points angled backwards rather than forwards, reducing their effectiveness for fighting rivals and warding off predators. Natural selection would select for smaller, sharper antlers that pointed forwards, but sexual selection ran amok for this species, individuals with lower fitness reproduced more and more, and the end result was their extinction.

Fast forward a few millennia and what does TRP advocate? To become Chad, to pander to female sexual preference, just like Megaloceras did. Except Megaloceras did it unconsciously, passively. TRP is saying to do it consciously and actively. And our species will continue to suffer for it.

TL; DR: When sexual selection overrides natural selection in a species, more individuals with lower fitness reproduce and lower the species' overall fitness. Pandering to female sexual preference (Chad) will destroy our species just like it destroyed Megaloceras.

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