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if this fuckass plane doesn’t take off soon

While American female beauty standards have only escalated in the last 40 to 50 years, male beauty standards have fallen off a cliff. Men in the 1980s were expected to daily do their hair, sometimes using even more products than women. If you went to a club, men wore elaborate, fashionable outfits, accessories, and layers. Today, women wear far more makeup, and far more types of makeup exist. But finding hairspray, mouse, or a blow-dryer in a man's bathroom is rare, nearly all his shirts will be black, the pants he wears to a club are likely not to fit properly, and he is likely to be called a slur for homosexual if he wears accessories and a leather jacket. He will show up to work with his hair brushed, at best, and an unkempt scruff or beard. If he joins the military or goes to a school with an uniform, the standards for personal hygiene will feel oppressive, but women will find them refreshingly simple. The explanation is that men simply are not trying anymore, nor are they expected to. We evolved over millions of years by female-driven mate selection, like nearly all social mammals. The truth, recognized even by Darwin at the advent of the discovery of evolution, is that women typically serve as reproductive gatekeepers, because they bear much higher biological costs of reproduction than men. The falling rates of people dating or marrying have many factors, but this likely is one of them. Many women find dating these days to be too costly with little reward. Why put on airs and break out hundreds of dollars worth of personal hygiene products and makeup to meet a man who shows up late, finds one to be an acceptable number of eyebrows, and will ask you, eyeing your breasts in a fetching push-up bra, what you bring to the table, as if he is the prize to be wooed?

“a path with heart” is bodying me

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