Hypergamy is about class advancement. How does that advance your point? The more likely truth is that many men look for women who aren't as smart as they are as an ego boost and control mechanism.
Except that women want to be found. Hypergamy will reference any advatage whether it be social, mental, or physical, with some of those advatages being more important than others. Height is a really important one.
It's understandable for anyone to look for a successful mate. And if a woman desires children and a traditional role with them then she'll naturally want a mate who can provide well, but that's a different animal.
No, it's the same animal. Smarter men can provide better. Really, it's that simple. Sometimes the obvious is correct.
BTW, why do women openly say, "what I'm looking for is someone I know is taller than me." but they don't openly say, "what I'm looking for is someone I know is stronger than me." (even though surveys can tease out that they are actually seeking someone stronger than them)?
No, you're still wrong about that, still working from bad data. You need to bone up on the more recent studies. Women and men showed progress on that line, but women made stronger and more appreciable progress. Given the opportunity and expectation they perform as well or better than their male counterparts.
There have been tests on emotional perception and empathy, with women doing much better than men, but mostly where the data was self reported instead of measured scientifically. When measured objectively the difference was actually marginal. We process differently, but our calculators are comparable.
Except that isn't true. See: Why Women Finally Have Higher IQs than Men, Time, July 16, 2012 and/or Men, Women, and IQ: Setting the Record Straight, Psychology Today, July 20, 2012.
Both your links are to the same study. That's OK, but the study is James Flynn's and it only goes so far. It uses a small sample size. It uses kids. And Flynn has an agenda to promote because he's an avowed Marxist. So, no, there is still no data that refutes the historical and pragmatic view that men are smarter than women.
Beyond that, relationship dynamics is not emtional perception and empathy. Men might be just as good at women calculating those dynamics, but men would rather not. So it turns out people are better at thinking about things they spend a lot of time thinking about. That's why men are better at IQ tests and women are better at predicting certain social behavior.
And this is really the bottom line. Instead of trying to fit men and women into the social contstruct the State would prefer, we should let men and women do what they want without being pushed by the State. It would be better for men, women, and the culture.
Not any more. Men are waiting later. If they want to look at 29 to thirty something it would make more sense.
Men aren't waiting later. Women are; that's the whole point of having a career and being strong and independent.
Historically true, but it looks as though history is changing.
It doesn't look like it yet. We still have some history to go through before we can declare what is driven by human nature to be changing.
Well, no. I don't think that's sustainable at all, presently.
Of course it's not sustainable. With a birthrate well below replacement for some time now, it's looking more like the culture is already on borrowed time.
