Forget the Blue Pill vs Red Pill.... The Black Pill is the..

Despite women's gains in education and in the workforce, the traditional pattern of women marrying dominant men persists. Even when women marry men who are less educated than they are, they continue to marry "up" in income.


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Not only do women want to marry men who make more money than they do, men are relatively indifferent to a woman's socioeconomic status. They're more interested in a woman's attractiveness and fertility, which means higher-status women must compete with attractive lower-status women for higher-status men.



What we're left with, then, is an abundance of rich women and unemployed men.



One solution to this problem would be for women to marry men who are less educated and less wealthy than they are. While this may be somewhat more prevalent today (and, as Carlson noted, may be something women should do), they generally don't do it.



There is one other possible solution: Women could stop being so consumed by professional success and invest more time and energy on building marriages and families. That would leave room for men to become the career-successful partners women want them to be.



Unfortunately, that's not likely to happen soon. Not only is it considered backward to suggest a woman value marriage and family more than career, men have been conditioned to step aside on behalf of women everywhere. "Men are bombarded with a message that modern women value the opportunity for self realization through work," wrote the late Geoff Dench. "So the chivalrous thing to do these days is for men not to strive too hard to hold down a job or seek promotion but to stand aside and let women go for it themselves."



All of which is to say to women: Be careful what you wish for.