The Real Reason Beauty Standards Changed — And Why Men Pay the Price (youtube.com)
Most women on dating apps get hundreds of swipes and think they're doing well, and therefore don't work on developing the types of qualities that sustain longterm relationships. Women feel overwhelmed by attention, and post memes about the standards they want. In films, a type of average woman is cast as the heroine, who the superhero man falls for, but she may be not the type men would really fall for. ‘They’ve turned the absense of beauty into some sort of moral achievement.'
When men say what they actually find attractive (Syndey Sweeny), ‘bad for women,’ ‘problematic’, ‘male gaze,’ and ‘racist.’
Women are told that if men don't find the normal typecast attractive, the men are weak, shallow, etc. ‘Most average men are rejected so relentlessly, no wonder they turn to p***... and we bully them... Their lonliness is bound to show up somewhere. At least have the decency to acknowledge the root cause.’
The erotic market has classic female beauty, and the other is a female status market where women reward each other.
‘All this we call unfair beauty standards, for women.’ 150 year long war on male sexuality. 1830s Sarah Grimke female desire is virtue and male desire is vice, a bunch of other people denegrating male sexuality, sometimes as pathology.