There is a widespread misconception that women are hopeless romantics. Turns out it's the other way around.

So let’s start with how men and women score on the most well-known measure of romanticism, the Romantic Beliefs Scale.2 This questionnaire asks people to rate the extent to which they agree with statements like, “There will only be one real love for me," “If I love someone, I know I can make the relationship work, despite any obstacles," and, "The person I love will make a perfect romantic partner; he/she will be completely accepting, loving, and understanding.”

The researchers who developed the scale have found that, on average, men outscore women

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Alas, the dual assaults of feminism and globalization are leaving huge numbers of men with no romantic prospects. Why? Because despite what feminists initially claimed, hypergamy doesn't suddenly disappear when women achieve financial stability and increased social status.

Article from CBS notes:

That meshes with the problems facing younger American men who lack college degrees. In 1990, more than 17 percent of men between 18 to 39 worked in manufacturing, but by 2007 that had declined to about 11 percent, Autor and his co-researchers found. Fewer job opportunities reduce “the supply of young men who would likely be judged as good marital prospects,” they noted.

It’s not only that young working-class men are less marriageable when jobs dry up, but that some of these men are actually disappearing, the paper noted.

Where are these young men going? Many are turning to risky behaviors such as heavy drinking and drug use. Trade shocks are leading to higher mortality rates for young men, which explains some -- but not all -- of the imbalance. Young men are also disappearing because they’re incarcerated, homeless or migrating to other areas to find better job opportunities.

So in other words, working class men are doing horribly.

But not to worry gents, just as feminists are determined to create gender equality in the political and legal spheres (cough), they are doing their best to help working class men achieve decent employment and therefore a chance at having a happy relationship. Oh wait...

A "man-cession." That's what some economists are starting to call it. Of the 5.7 million jobs Americans lost between December 2007 and May 2009, nearly 80 percent had been held by men. Mark Perry, an economist at the University of Michigan, characterizes the recession as a "downturn" for women but a "catastrophe" for men.

Last November, President-elect Obama addressed the devastation in the construction and manufacturing industries by proposing an ambitious New Deal-like program to rebuild the nation's infrastructure. He called for a two-year "shovel ready" stimulus program to modernize roads, bridges, schools, electrical grids, public transportation, and dams and made reinvigorating the hardest-hit sectors of the economy the goal of the legislation that would become the recovery act.

Women's groups were appalled. Grids? Dams? Opinion pieces immediately appeared in major newspapers with titles like "Where are the New Jobs for Women?" and "The Macho Stimulus Plan." A group of "notable feminist economists" circulated a petition that quickly garnered more than 600 signatures, calling on the president-elect to add projects in health, child care, education, and social services and to "institute apprenticeships" to train women for "at least one third" of the infrastructure jobs. At the same time, more than 1,000 feminist historians signed an open letter urging Obama not to favor a "heavily male-dominated field" like construction: "We need to rebuild not only concrete and steel bridges but also human bridges." As soon as these groups became aware of each other, they formed an anti-stimulus plan action group called WEAVE-- Women's Equality Adds Value to the Economy.

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For a group of people who so often call themselves "socialists" they sure seem hellbent on harming working class men. There is however a silver lining to the death of romance. Thanks to feminism marriage no longer provides any benefit to men, and on the contrary is an exceedingly risky proposition. Therefore working class men are ultimately being spared a life of misery.

Still, being alone is another type of misery. In one sense men are being freed, but on the other the loss of love is tragic. Most men aren't suited to monk lifestyles. They are being forced into this position out of a combination of hypergamy run amok and anti-male laws.

Lest there be any confusion, working class men are not some minor part of the economy. They are the people who maintain civilization.

Unless the MRM succeeds, I anticipate that the Japanese herbivore phenomenon will rapidly go global. It may spread so quickly that people won't even realize what's happening before it's too late. When I first saw Karen Straughan's video "Fempocalypse" I assumed she was engaging in hyperbole. Now I'm not so sure...