The End Of Beta Providers « Citizen Renegade 8/2/11 3:20 PM This is Google's cache of http://roissy.wordpress.com/2010/06/17/the-end-of-beta-providers/. It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on Jul 20, 2011 18:51:04 GMT. The current page could have changed in the meantime. Learn more These search terms are highlighted: the end of beta providers Text-only version Home About Alpha Assessment Submissions Beta Of The Year Contest Submissions Female Photo Submissions The Sixteen Commandments Of Poon Dating Market Value Test For Men Dating Market Value Test For Women Search Citizen Renegade Where pretty lies perish. Feeds: Posts Comments « Women Don’t Want You To Remember Everything About Them Study Confirming My View Of The Job-Sexual Marketplace Nexus » The End Of Beta Providers June 17, 2010 by Heartiste Hanna Rosin wrote a stream of consciousness diatribe against men in The Atlantic recently called “The End of Men“. As with most of these articles written by foot soldiers of the femborg collective lamenting — or celebrating, if the tone is any indication — the regression of men into second and third class status in American society, evidence for certain assertions is woefully lacking, and where the authors uncover something truthful about the condition of modern men, they only paint half a picture because of their refusal, out of ignorance or deceptiveness, to confront the full reality of the sexual market; in particular, female hypergamy. Without grasping the very different compulsions that animate men’s and women’s sexual drives, one will never have a clear understanding of male-female relations and cultural trends. Because ultimately, all culture, all markets, spring from the fundamental sexual market. In the ’90s, when Ericsson looked into the numbers for the two dozen or so [fertility] clinics that use his process, he discovered, to his surprise, that couples were requesting more girls than http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fZhH_MuYZiI…Beta+Providers%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com Page 1 of 126 The End Of Beta Providers « Citizen Renegade 8/2/11 3:20 PM boys, a gap that has persisted, even though Ericsson advertises the method as more effective for producing boys. In some clinics, Ericsson has said, the ratio is now as high as 2 to 1. Polling data on American sex preference is sparse, and does not show a clear preference for girls. But the picture from the doctor’s office unambiguously does. A newer method for sperm selection, called MicroSort, is currently completing Food and Drug Administration clinical trials. The girl requests for that method run at about 75 percent. Leaving aside the possibility of selection bias in the couples who make gender requests at fertility clinics, a trend toward proactively favoring girls over boys would be expected and predicted by evolutionary psychologists in a culture where an individual woman had an increasingly better chance of reproducing in adulthood than an individual man. As women are the limiting reproductive variable, and as men’s provider value is decreasing at the same time they are falling behind in the resource acquisition race relative to women, it makes far more sense for parents who, subconsciously, want children who can grow up to give them lots of grandchildren, to favor daughters over sons when a choice is available. It’s a reasonable bet hedge. Even more unsettling for Ericsson, it has become clear that in choosing the sex of the next generation, he is no longer the boss. “It’s the women who are driving all the decisions,” he says —a change the MicroSort spokespeople I met with also mentioned. At first, Ericsson says, women who called his clinics would apologize and shyly explain that they already had two boys. “Now they just call and [say] outright, ‘I want a girl.’ These mothers look at their lives and think their daughters will have a bright future their mother and grandmother didn’t have, brighter than their sons, even, so why wouldn’t you choose a girl?” That’s one reason. The other reason is that young girls are simply easier to raise than young boys. I have little nieces and nephews, and it’s easy to observe how much louder, rambunctious, temperamental, and ill- behaved the boys are compared to the girls. This is not an excuse to drug them; that same whirling dervish quality also imparts boys with the innate ability to invent, improve, and build civilizations from the ground up… and fight and screw like champs. For dual earning, self-absorbed parents on the go go go, better behaved daughters who don’t demand so much of their attention are a welcome relief. Up to a point, the reasons behind this shift are obvious. As thinking and communicating have come to eclipse physical strength and stamina as the keys to economic success, those societies that take advantage of the talents of all their adults, not just half of them, have pulled away from the rest. “Thinking”? I can see an innate advantage in communicating, as women are generally more extraverted and verbally adept than men, but in the thinking department men have the edge. Not only do more men occupy the far right tail of genius on the IQ bell curve, they also have a higher mean IQ than women. And because geopolitics and global culture are, ultimately, Darwinian, other societies either follow suit or end up marginalized. There is agreement among the commentariat that societies with emancipated and economically empowered women outperform societies with traditional sex roles, and that it is assumed this performance differential will hold up for eternity. But things change, the center cannot hold. Who’s to say gender egalitarian societies don’t contain within themselves the seed of their destruction? Or: this ride ain’t over yet. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fZhH_MuYZiI…Beta+Providers%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com Page 2 of 126 The End Of Beta Providers « Citizen Renegade 8/2/11 3:20 PM What if the modern, postindustrial economy is simply more congenial to women than to men? Conscientious application to menial desk jockey multitasks is what women’s brains are best at. Our society exists at a strange moment of economic limbo between two worlds — the past manufacturing based world and the future transhuman world — a limbo where paper pushing, legalistic gear grinding, government welfare administration, and service with a smile has infested like a toxic mold almost every tier of vertical and horizontal economic productivity. It is the kind of work, in substance and in psychological reward, that is soul-crushing to men but fulfilling to women. And it is the kind of work for which colleges, with their mile wide but inch deep liberal arts programs and their empty-headed women’s studies classes, are preparing with perfect precision their students for the female-majority workforce of the anticipated future. The postindustrial economy is indifferent to men’s size and strength. The attributes that are most valuable today—social intelligence, open communication, the ability to sit still and focus —are, at a minimum, not predominantly male. As I’ve written before, all that female-oriented yapping, organizing, and paper shuffling means nothing if you don’t have the male-dominated engineers and scientists to produce the products that yappers huddle about to sell. Yes, the U.S. still has a wage gap, one that can be convincingly explained—at least in part—by discrimination. Unlike articles written by respected authors in respectable magazines with a national exposure read by millions, we here at this little internet outpost must abide the truth. And the truth is that little to none of the sex wage gap has to do with discrimination. It is instead a result of differences in occupational choice, (mediated by women’s natural biological proclivity to prefer pursuing careers in lower paying nurturing jobs), and by women’s decisions to take time off work for family reasons. I’d say pwned, but I think Hanna RosinPlotzinDingleheimerSchmidt would enjoy that. Yes, women still do most of the child care. Because Rosin doesn’t confront the existence of female hypergamy and status whoring, she does not reflect on the fact that men who do play kitchen bitch and contribute half or more of the child care and domestic duties quickly betatize themselves straight into sexless purgatory. Women can bitch all they want about unhelpful men in the home, but when push comes to shove, those women stop pushing into the crotches of their enlightened domesticated partners. Smart men know this, so they learn to ignore the bitching in favor of getting their dicks wet. It may be happening slowly and unevenly, but it’s unmistakably happening: in the long view, the modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards. One of the commenters absolutely schooled Rosin about some of her assumptions of a female-dominated economy. You can read that comment here. The list of growing jobs is heavy on nurturing professions, in which women, ironically, seem to benefit from old stereotypes and habits. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fZhH_MuYZiI…Beta+Providers%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com Page 3 of 126 The End Of Beta Providers « Citizen Renegade 8/2/11 3:20 PM Stereotypes don’t materialize out of thin air. They usually have a very large kernel of truth. Theoretically, there is no reason men should not be qualified.