Hypergamy: Women desire relationships with men of higher caste, social status or sexual capital than themselves. The peasant girl will marry a prince, but the princess will never marry a peasant boy (the princess may sleep with a dashing, handsome rogue, but will not marry him until his status is higher than hers). When a woman finds a man of even higher status than the one she has, she will find an excuse to let go of her current man and latch on to the higher-status man.
Briffault's Law: “the female, not the male, determines all the conditions of the animal family. Where the female can derive no benefit from association with the male, no such association takes place.” Women wield the ultimate veto power in the mating game. It is women who give thumbs-up or thumbs-down to any advances or proposals from men.
The Light Switch Effect: When relationships go bad, women re-write the history of the relationship, discrediting all the past good, so that "it has always been bad and was NEVER good" It doesn't matter that she was sending you love notes and texts a month ago. She has been unhappy for a long time now.
The War Brides Dynamic: Women easily transition psychologically from one dominant male to another. In war, men are killed but women are a prize to be preserved for the conquering tribe. Psychologically, women adjust quite easily to this because it preserves women's reproductive opportunities.
I would add a fifth:
Solipsism: The philosophical idea that only one's own mind is sure to exist. All reality is an extenstion of her will. Other people have no independent motivations, desires, etc., but exist only as extensions of her motivations, desires, etc. "If your girlfriend cheats on you, you need to understand that you lacked something that made her cheat, so instead of leaving her for another girl, find out the error in yourself, apologize to her and be a Better man."
silverairplane 12 points 1.7 years ago
Hypergamy: Women desire relationships with men of higher caste, social status or sexual capital than themselves. The peasant girl will marry a prince, but the princess will never marry a peasant boy (the princess may sleep with a dashing, handsome rogue, but will not marry him until his status is higher than hers). When a woman finds a man of even higher status than the one she has, she will find an excuse to let go of her current man and latch on to the higher-status man.
Briffault's Law: “the female, not the male, determines all the conditions of the animal family. Where the female can derive no benefit from association with the male, no such association takes place.” Women wield the ultimate veto power in the mating game. It is women who give thumbs-up or thumbs-down to any advances or proposals from men.
The Light Switch Effect: When relationships go bad, women re-write the history of the relationship, discrediting all the past good, so that "it has always been bad and was NEVER good" It doesn't matter that she was sending you love notes and texts a month ago. She has been unhappy for a long time now.
The War Brides Dynamic: Women easily transition psychologically from one dominant male to another. In war, men are killed but women are a prize to be preserved for the conquering tribe. Psychologically, women adjust quite easily to this because it preserves women's reproductive opportunities.
I would add a fifth:
Solipsism: The philosophical idea that only one's own mind is sure to exist. All reality is an extenstion of her will. Other people have no independent motivations, desires, etc., but exist only as extensions of her motivations, desires, etc. "If your girlfriend cheats on you, you need to understand that you lacked something that made her cheat, so instead of leaving her for another girl, find out the error in yourself, apologize to her and be a Better man."