https://docs.iza.org/dp4200.pdf
Some people argue with the ‘no true woman’ fallacy, or don’t trust them to know how to self reflect properly, but clearly something is dying in society.
That is, if there’s less expectation to lie and say everything is fine, you could get declining life satisfaction numbers with no actual decline in satisfaction.
Anecdotally people I know from my grandparent’s generation are much less likely to admit to being unhappy.
> ...answers to subjective well-being questions have been shown to be correlated with physical evidence of affect such as smiling, laughing, heart rate measures, sociability, and electrical activity in the brain (Diener, 1984)
1) Society has changed in a way that has made people less happy. 2) Society has changed in a way that has made people less likely to lie about being happy.
If you stop to think it through for a second, you’ll quickly understand how the statement “we have some data from somewhere in the middle of the time period in question that self reported satisfaction and a actual satisfaction are correlated” isn’t evidence to support either side. That statement can easily fit either hypothesis.
- The patriarchy is still here, but we now expect women to have a career while simultaneously taking care of children.
- Decades of hypersexualized media put the emphasis on sex during dating over caring relationships.
If she wants a doctorate she has to be married before she enters the workforce.
She has time for maybe 1-3 long term relationships before she ages out of childbearing age.
So yes women have more options but they also have less time to pick the right one.
I have not (yet) seen any relatively modern stable society where 80% of men don’t have children. Having that many men with not much to lose would, presumably, be a destabilizing force.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/12/07/polygamy-...
It's basically just Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen and sub-Saharan west African countries that have >1% rate of polygamy and only the African countries that have more than 5%. Not exactly the most stable countries.