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The Impact of the Mating Crisis and Sex Ratio on Women
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1:13:01 - 1:21:13 (08:11)

The current mating crisis, sex ratio skew in universities and hypogamy, could be motivating an increasingly sexualised culture for women to step into. Studies have shown that when women perceive that there are more females in their environment, they perceive more intense mating competition and feel worse about their bodies.

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Women's perception of their environment with more women leads to more intense mating competition and negatively impacts their self-esteem, leading to the motivation to lose weight.
1:13:01 - 1:15:56 (02:54)
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Self-esteem
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Women's perception of their environment with more women leads to more intense mating competition and negatively impacts their self-esteem, leading to the motivation to lose weight. Similarly, women experiencing competition with their attractive partners face lower self-esteem and increased motivation to maintain physical attractiveness.

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The Impact of the Mating Crisis and Sex Ratio on Women
Episode
#580 - Dr Tania Reynolds - What Use Are Female Friendships?
Podcast
Modern Wisdom
The sex ratio skew in universities and hypogamy are creating a baseline of women dating up and across an ever-increasing group of high-performing women, competing for an ever-decreasing group of high-performing men, resulting in an increasingly sexualized culture for women to step into.
1:15:56 - 1:19:41 (03:44)
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Mating Crisis
Summary

The sex ratio skew in universities and hypogamy are creating a baseline of women dating up and across an ever-increasing group of high-performing women, competing for an ever-decreasing group of high-performing men, resulting in an increasingly sexualized culture for women to step into. Some high-achieving women are going the sperm donor route or subscribing to a counter culture role where they declare themselves independent.

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The Impact of the Mating Crisis and Sex Ratio on Women
Episode
#580 - Dr Tania Reynolds - What Use Are Female Friendships?
Podcast
Modern Wisdom
The podcast discusses the idea of counterculture and how it relates to women's retreat to the inner citadel when they are struggling to find men in a hyper-sexualized world.
1:19:41 - 1:21:13 (01:32)
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Counterculture, Women, Traditional Conservatism
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The podcast discusses the idea of counterculture and how it relates to women's retreat to the inner citadel when they are struggling to find men in a hyper-sexualized world. Traditional conservatism is suggested as a genuine polarized counterculture to this phenomenon.

Chapter
The Impact of the Mating Crisis and Sex Ratio on Women
Episode
#580 - Dr Tania Reynolds - What Use Are Female Friendships?
Podcast
Modern Wisdom