Hypergamy: It is the action of always selecting upwards for a superior social status, caste or class.
This is usually applied to women, leading to the terms 'Gold-digger', 'Monkey-branching', 'Alpha Fucks', etc.
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Evolutionary psychology states that men and women have evolved differing mate selection strategies.
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It can be shown that Men overwhelmingly prefer young, fertile women - in a study of attractiveness to the opposite sex, men as a whole tend to select 21-22 year old women as the ones that look the most attractive to them.
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You can see the chart looks almost like a straight bar drawn at the 21-22 year age, while women's preferences show a more linear relationship.
(source: http://i.imgur.com/Ijgzwsk.png).
OkCupid has since taken quickly down their findings as we can only imagine it caused many hurt feelings amongst the women.
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The evolutionary theory behind this is that at men are cued to select for fertility and older women tend to lose their fertility as they age - The men who preferred younger women had more offspring and passed on that proclivity to the next generation.
Repeat this thousands of generations and we end up with this preference becoming ingrained - becoming an integral part of Male nature.
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For women, evolution has led them to select hypergamously (selecting upwards for superior social status).
Evolutionary psychology states that women overwhelmingly prefer and select for good-looking, wealthy, high status men.
This is because women who selected high status men tended to rear more children to reproductive age than those who didn't.
By having more children, the proclivity for Hypergamy was passed on to the next generation, and again, repeating for thousands of generations, this proclivity has become an integral part of Female nature (source: The evolution of desire, David Buss).
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Now there are certain people (especially women) who claim that hypergamy is due to country or culture or patriarchy and that in feminist countries which women and men are more equal, it will show that there is no Hypergamy. These people will also say that women generally do not care about wealth or looks and that it is only a very few, a rare percentage of women who are gold-diggers, etc.
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Unfortunately, we do have proof that hypergamy is a universal part of female nature and no amount of Feminism or "Equality!" can turn off female nature.
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We can prove women select for looks - experiments done by OkCupid and Tinder shows that women rate an overwhelming 80% of men as below average and will only select for the top 20% of men (OkCupid source: http://i.imgur.com/2MstAzl.gif) (Tinder source: https://medium.com/@worstonlinedater/tinder-experiments-ii-guys-unless-you-are-really-hot-you-are-probably-better-off-not-wasting-your-2ddf370a6e9a).
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We can also prove that women select for wealth and resources: World wide studies were done a long time ago which encompassed over 10,000 people in 37 different cultures across six continents and five islands: (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/231858845_Buss_David_M_1989_Sex_Differences_in_Human_Mate_Preferences_Evolutionary_Hypotheses_Tested_in_37_Cultures_Behavioral_and_Brain_Sciences).
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In Ultra-Feminist countries such as Norway, women still overwhelmingly select for men with higher earnings (source: http://ftp.iza.org/dp12185.pdf).
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Understand that Hypergamy is an integral part of Female nature and cannot be switched off.
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In fact, the continued encouragement of women in education (women make up 60% of all college undergraduates), forced gender equality quotas the workplace (women under 30 now out-earn men of the same age https://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/aug/29/women-in-20s-earn-more-men-same-age-study-finds) and the forced legislation of representation for women has made women more successful and reduced their available hypergamous mate choices (https://www.oregonlive.com/trending/2019/09/ladies-its-not-you-there-just-arent-enough-economically-attractive-men-to-marry-study-says.html).
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Men have to understand this because it explains why women who 'settle' become unhappy - Most women want a top 20% man but were forced to settle for something less than that.
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Men, if you are not part of the top 20% of men, by looks, by wealth, by social status, within her social circle, she instinctively finds you ugly and disgusting.
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This partially explains the reason why so many marriages end-up being dead-bedrooms and why women file 80% of divorces several years down the road after 'settling' for a man.
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So what are the implications for men (and for MGTOWs)?
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Firstly, understand that hypergamy is always relative - it is relative to her current social pool of available mates.
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Now it used to be that humans lived in small tribes where there were only a few 100 people. With a small tribe, it becomes relatively easier for a man to improve himself to become one of the top 20%, either by biding his time and with the passing away of the top males or through self-improvement. And well, if he wasn't in the top 20%, he became that part of the majority of males who did not pass down his genes (https://psmag.com/environment/17-to-1-reproductive-success).
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However, in this modern day and age, a vast majority of the population live in cities, where transport and connectivity is relatively easy and various online/internet platforms has expanded to pool of available mates to millions of people.
In such a situation, it is significantly harder to better oneself to become the top 20% because with such a large pool of competitors, one is likely to be within the average.
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Secondly, realise that there is ALWAYS going to be a bottom 80% of men.
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That is the vast majority of men - these are your average Tom, Dick and Harry, these majority of men will, very likely, if they marry, be stuck with dead-bedrooms and unhappy marriages.
These men will need a lot more help than mere platitudes of 'be strong', 'train your woman', 'be alpha', etc.
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They can be doing everything, trying their hardest and following all the 'be strong' advice most often given, and still end up with an unhappy domestic situation.
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There is only so much that a man can do to improve - and men everywhere are relentlessly upping their game, in gyms for physique, in business, to acquire wealth and resources and increasingly even undergoing surgery to help improve their height or looks.
And because competition is relentless, where once women were satisfied with a millionaire man, they now see the top 20% which are billionaires living within their city and well within their social reach.
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Through no fault of their own, these are the majority of men who could end up being divorce-raped and having their kids taken from them, and for them to end up being another victim of the family courts and of child support orders and another suicide statistic.
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Now, can these majority of men improve their chances?
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If he is married, one way would be possibly moving out of the city to a different area, a rural area, with long distances, bad transportation, and horrible internet, thus where the mate competition and population is very low, a man with an unhappy marriage could improve the domestic conditions because he has understood the women's Hypergamous nature and that the fault lies not entirely with him, but also with the social conditions present in the city.
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Unfortunately, the woman may not agree to live in relative social isolation and there is no way of forcing her to move or do anything she does not want to do.
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The alternative is to move to countries where his social status is valued highly such as South America or East Asia. There, just by virtue of being a western man and carrying a western passport, his social status ranks highly above that of the locals.
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Another possibility, though a lot less likely to succeed, is to try to red-pill the woman so that she becomes aware of her own Hypergamous instincts and can try to control them.
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Lastly, if he can buy enough time, her market value will naturally decline out of the attractiveness range of most men, and she will not be able to have the same dating pool of options as she was used to. This is even more risky, because:
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(i) women often have an overinflated sense of their own market value; and
(ii) women are often unaware that their market value has plummeted, at least not until after she has already divorce-raped the ex-husband and tries to go back out on the dating market.
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