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Martin Greenwald, M.D.'s avatar

“Himpathy” sounds like the quintessential kind of theory that is more the product of the author’s personality and imagination than anything else.

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Graham Cunningham's avatar

A good essay. Hyper-progressive, nonsensical narratives about relations between men and women - whether they be 'himpathy' or rampant 'misogyny' or 'it's not about sex, it's about power' - all blind themselves to an elephant in the room....sex is about one thing and one thing only - sexual desire. Powerful men are not 'misogynistic'; quite the reverse in fact. They use their power to get more sex with more women and they do it..... because they can. The losers are low status (ie most) men. For every alpha-male with ten women, there are (logically) nine 'beta' men with none. Attractive young women meanwhile can attract men in droves whereas 'plain' women are left with far fewer options. It's all very 'unfair' of course (because life is) but, in all the favorite progressive stories of victimhood and unfairness, these real losers (men and women) in the 'battle of the sexes' barely get a mention in most journalism on the subject. https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/

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