www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...cruel-men.html
This is becoming a trend. MGTOW theorizes it well before science catches up. We've talked about Alpha Widow syndrome. The tendency of carouselers to displace their anger on 80%'ers. So many times.
A summary which includes both these is here
. From the study:
It’s the plotline of many a cheesy rom-com: Woman rejected by a good-looking lothario is scooped up by the Average Joe who’s been waiting in the wings all along.But in real life it may be a very different story, according to a study. Researchers found that, rather than being grateful for the fall-back option, being rejected by an attractive man actually makes a woman more likely to turn down an unattractive one, and to describe him harshly.
It is as if distancing herself from the unattractive man helps her retain the idea that she is high status, cushioning the blow of the rejection. Participants rejected by the attractive man also derogated the unattractive man even when the unattractive man offered acceptance,’ said the psychologists from the University of Toronto.
For the study, researchers recruited 126 single women and created dating profiles for them. The participants were told that these profiles would be viewed and evaluated by two men that they could potentially meet at the end of the experiment. They then read the two men’s profiles (which had actually been written by the researchers); one had a photo of an attractive man attached, while the other was paired with a photo of an unattractive man.
Afterwards the women were told whether the men were interested in meeting them or whether they had turned them down.
Writing in the Journal of Social Psychological and Personality Science the researchers said:
Participants who were rejected by one of the men distanced themselves from and derogated him as indicated by less interest in meeting him and lower ratings of attractiveness, responsiveness, and romantic appeal compared to those in the acceptance and control conditions.
Of greatest interest, participants who were rejected by the attractive man were also relatively uninterested in meeting the unattractive man and derogated him even when he was accepting.’
The scientists try to rationalize this somehow as justifiable by the woman. But it what it leaves out is her subsequent response to an 80% man also has to do with her generalizing her ill will towards men in general; displacing her anger. It also is a product of her insecurity as opposed to some well-conceived plan. In fact it is entirely sub-optimal for our modern civilization. Which is why these kinds of behaviors were 'written over' by traditionalism. With regression, women fall back to instinctual behaviors that are maladaptive towards modern times; they could be happy today with a man of equivalent SMV but in the jungle that was a no-no; top 6% or nothing. So again, modern female behavior unmoored by traditionalism is anachronistic but I would give science a few years to figure out what we already have.
Anyhow, I credit science for doing some catch-up. I look forward to 10 years from now when they've covered most of our other theories on female behavior. But by then, we'll also have fleshed out many more relationship/mate-selection concepts by then.
