Why do sexist men so grossly overestimate their market value?

Women, not men, are the ones who remain desirable regardless of age or circumstances.

I have a new literary obsession: men who greatly overestimate their market value, and who then get told.

These bros have been getting high on Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson, and convinced themselves that—in spite of all evidence—it’s men who are highly valuable and highly sought after. So they leave their wives—after all, women over 25 are pathetic losers whom no one will want—and end up alone, just like they deserve.

The very concept of market value is appalling and dehumanizing. Human beings are dynamic and unique, and the idea that any individual has any specific, universal value is patently absurd. If we meet the red pillers and misogynists and incels on their terms, though, one thing becomes very apparent.

Women bring extraordinary value to their relationships, while the market value of men is incredibly low. Everyone secretly knows this. It’s why women are inundated with messages every time they join a dating site, while men often struggle to get a single first date.

It’s why women are constantly harassed and flirted with in public, no matter how old they are or how they look, while women steadfastly avoid strange men.

Let’s look at the objective facts.

Men are exponentially more likely to rape, kill, abuse, demean, and stalk their partners. Every relationship a woman has with a man puts her at risk.

Marriage overwhelmingly benefits men. Perhaps that’s the real reason divorced men are so so angry.

They tell us single mothers have little value, and should just be grateful for any attention they get from a man—because, of course, men want to normalize abuse of single mothers.

But if you marry a single mother, years of social conditioning and guilt ensure that she won’t ask you for anything close to household equity, and will work harder and longer to support you because she’s been taught that she has lower value. That makes a single mother a great deal.

Single dads, though? These are the real people with low market value. Marry a single dad and you’ll be expected to take over parenting his kid, fighting his ex, and probably pushing out another kid or two for him. Don’t ask him for equity, you gold digging trophy wife.

Men would rather jerk off to Andrew Tate and fight with women online about Jordan Peterson than ever do anything that might improve their relationships, gain them access to more sex, or make them desirable. To them, listening to women is worse than being alone—because in a patriarchal society, most men don’t actually like women. They want attention from men, and women are just accessories in service of that goal.

There are cracks in the facade, though.

Deep down, men know that women are less interested in marriage and heterosexual relationships than they are. They have seen that women of every age and shape and personality get more attention than they do. And that is precisely why thy are so hellbent on convincing women of their worthlessness.

Men think “You’ll die alone with your cats!” is the scariest thing you can tell a woman because it’s what men fear the most.

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

But if they can convince us that we are worthless if we are alone, that we should feel ashamed of being alone, and that we are at a high risk of being alone, then we’ll be a lot more willing to accept their bullshit.

This conditioning to over-value men and relationships with them begins early, and our culture seizes every conceivable opportunity it can to repeat the message.

It’s why women tend to worry more about whether a man likes them than whether they like him.

It’s why we round bad up to mediocre and mediocre up to good, and think a man who doesn’t hit us counts as a “good guy.”

It’s why we get excited when a man likes us, rather than worrying that he might become violent.

It’s also why so many men are so very angry. The privileges to which they feel so deeply entitled are finally starting to slip away. And often, the reactions are hilariously incoherent. Witness the divorced men who whine about how marriage is bad for men while complaining about their wives who left them, all in the same breath. The men going their own way who spend all their time talking about women. The ostensibly heterosexual men who spend so much time speaking negatively about women while uplifting men like Andrew Tate.

But women are awakening to the ways we’ve been indoctrinated, and to the horrors of the typical heterosexual relationship. And many of us are responding by leaving bad marriages, or by shunning men altogether.

Every movement inspires a backlash. This is the function of the manosphere and all its ugly offshoots. Women are breaking out of their cages and demanding better.

Men don’t want to give better, so they’re trying to convince women we don’t deserve it by inflating their own value and deflating ours.

It’s just more bullshit from the ultimate scam—patriarchy. And women have to hold the line by knowing our own value.

Not one step back for any loser who smells, yells, hits, or is just plain lazy.

Men can choose to walk with us into a better world with better relationships. Or they can keep listening to and worshiping other men, and be left behind where they belong.