Men are forever reminded of their inherently shallow nature and made to feel ashamed of it, which is why most respectable men will make at least some conscious effort to see past a woman's face and figure at the person living beneath. This is what it is to be civilised; to override one's primitive impulses from higher up. Women nowadays are not encouraged to do this. To the contrary, they are taught to embrace their primitive urges and succumb to their innate desires, which are let free to run rampant, unconstrained by conscious inhibition. In the old days, a young woman's family would have had significant say in her choice of husband, ensuring that she was wedded to someone of good character and integrity. Now, with the rise of feminism, women are free to indulge their innate desire for high status men, and they do so proudly, unashamedly, and without apology.

This is observable in the harsh way in which they treat men they deem to be of low social status. Feminists rationalise this behaviour by characterising polite, mild-mannered, unpopular men, to whom they tend to be unattracted, as phony Nice Guys™, which they accuse of being manipulative—acting nice only to lure their female victims into bed. The implication being, no man can possibly desire love and affection for innocent reasons—men are too crude and simple to want genuine romance or companionship; they pursue women only for sex. And so when a popular, extroverted jock comes swaggering up with a playful smirk, the typical woman, helplessly enticed by his social rank, falls willingly into his arms, but when the computer nerd—all introverted, pleasant, and repulsive—approaches her tentatively, flower in hand, he is rejected in the heartless manner he deserves—the creep!

Thus hypergamy prevails, and the female equivalent of the gentleman remains a rare thing indeed. Young upwardly mobile women are seldom willing to settle for a poor man of modest intellect, being as they are, heavily influenced by a culture that seeks to incite in them a go-getter attitude, and which urges them to chase after the high-flying, successful men that they, as strong and independent women, deserve.

It is depressing, Larry remarked, how many of the girls who were cold and unfriendly to him at school, now having obtained their degrees in sociology and consequently feeling all sophisticated and clever can be seen swanning about with their noses in the air—these strong, independent women, looking for an even stronger, more independent man to look after them—treating unsuccessful men with the same coldness and scorn that before they would inflict on those deemed not cool enough to be worthy of their attention.