I have never seen one of these direct debates, so I thought of making one, using a very specific definition of hypergamy.

Hypergamy, here, is defined as the distinction that women, given a choice of men, will only be attracted to the best man to their liking they can get, which most often happens to be a man that is much more attractive than the woman in question. Conversely, men will be attracted to, and be content with a wide variety of women, ranging from the most attractive woman, to the average woman.

This creates the scenario where, as the attractiveness, or SMV, of a man increases, the number of women attracted to him increases exponentially, rather than in a linear pattern(Where Men who are 8-9's are desired by women who are 8-9's, not women from 4-9's).

My questions to you are:

  1. Does the above definition of hypergamy exist in society? If it does, how prevalent is it, or where is it most likely to occur? If it does not, why do you think it doesn't?

  2. Do you believe Hypergamy as described is problematic, assuming it does exist?