Some of the confusion I've observed regarding hypergamy are seemingly contradictory decisions made by women, that on the surface appears to negate the theory. This can be a woman who marries young, without having her party years, and remains faithful to her husband, it can be a woman who divorces her billionaire beta, and takes a drop in her lifestyle to date an alpha. The former seemingly contradicts hypergamy on the basis that the woman does not appear to capitalize on her peak sexual market value. The latter appears to contradict the theory based on the classic view of hypergamy, which is simply "marrying up".

The simple answer is that in analyzing the woman's behavior we are applying our own subjective value, or alternatively an objective value, that is different from her valuation. This is no different than me not understanding what would posses someone to buy a $200 bottle of shampoo. We are letting our own perception cloud our view of her choice. For instance, a woman looking for her Beta Bucks, cannot understand why a woman who has locked down a Beta Bucks Billionaire would leave him, and a woman in her Alpha fucks phase cannot understand why a woman would leave her Alpha husband, owing to solipsism.

The more complex answer is that optimizing hypergamy requires constant trade-offs between the various variables that make up a man's total status, furthermore that such optimization is taking place in a constantly moving market place, and finally that it's taking place on a subjective level for each woman. A woman may trade down in financial lifestyle, in order to secure higher value genetics, a woman may trade up in financial lifestyle but accept lower value genetics. The examples range from women risking death after being unfaithful, to Queens sneaking off to bang Chad the Stableboy.

The analysis is quite simple if one views it from the perspective of time. A man may satisfy a woman's hypergamy at a given point, and not do so later, a man may not satisfy a woman's hypergamy now, but may do so later. This is easy to observe, in the "story" of most comedies with a romantic undercurrent aimed at man, where the hapless Beta longs for the Prom Queen, filling the role of shoulder to cry on as she traverses a mountain range of Alpha Chads, only to discover near the end that the hapless Beta was her perfect mate all along. In these stories, the Beta does not satisfy the woman's hypergamy until she has conquered the range of Chad.

It would be much simpler if hypergamy was simply "marrying up", then hypergamy would stop being a factor once the woman got married. Once she has married a man above her station, she would be satisfied that she has done her job. This would not remove all the complexity from the equation, as one would still have to account for the values that she reviews in order to determine if she is marrying up or not. Social status, finances, signs of high quality genetics, or various other factors. However if we boil it down simply to a catch-all category "Status" to further simplify, then a female 6 who married a male 8, would never even think of divorce. However, it's clear that this is not the case, if it was then Hollywood that is the home of the highest status men in the world, would not also be the divorce capital of the world.

This scenario is explained in the quote from Gendernomics above, "the value is determined based on the value placed on the object by a rational actor for the achievement of his own ends", if a woman's "ends" change, then it follows that the value placed on the object also changes, if the value placed on the object changes, then it follows that an object that did optimize hypergamy may do so no longer or vice versa.

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