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I think I see where he's coming from, and it makes sense to me. But where is the evidence that expectations have changed for young men? A paragraph or two with examples would be useful. It is of course a bit nebulous to try to define "expectations on young men" so I'm willing to go with some sort of essay that presents the evidence.



The author talks a ton about expectations and “expected from” but is very careful to never phrase it all together in active voice because the central claim “harvard elites in conference rooms expect young poor men to abandon their partners and children, therefore harvard elites cause young poor men to abandon their partners and children” is on the face of it absurd.


You can poll young women for what they require of young men to date them. Plenty of content of that on YouTube.

It's not nebulous.


Maybe YT compilations of what "young women want" is not a good source of cultural information.


Right. I rarely trust what people state publicly. It's all idealized and confirmed to the expectations of the audience.


What's your source of truth other than polling women and watching their actual choices?


We're not talking about "polling", which is an actual process that needs to be done properly for the results to be worth considering. YT videos that women upload - or even worse, compilations of TikTok videos and whatnot - don't follow that process.


You didn't answer the question.


Yes, I did, it just wasn't explicit - my 'source of truth' is actual polls.





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