"The more successful a man, the more women he has access to. The more successful a woman, the less men she has access to." Agree or Disagree?

[Physics-Man]

Paraphrasing of a Disqus reader comment on an article about how and why men and women differ in intelligence.

• https://www.amren.com/features/2022/01/how-and-why-men-and-women-differ-in-intelligence/

Agree

Disagree

[BeMuse]

A women’s success doesn’t limit her options, it grants her more opportunity. Her behavior is what does her in. Men will be men and independently seek out their own stability and success in life. Some men are willing to carry dead weight; others are not… No man is ever going to look at a woman and be like, she can take care of herself, that’s horrible. Most men spend time worrying about if their love will make it if they pass away for whatever reason. That’s why men tend to buy life insurance… It doesn’t benefit them at all if they are dead.

[BeMuse]

Men purchase twice the life insurance as women. So obviously we want women that will be able to survive and care for our children. Thus, logically if she is successful there is less stress in that area of our lives.

[BeMuse]

It's the same reason a lot of men freak out when they have a kid... Often the burden of responsibility is placed on men to ensure the financial stability is present. The less of a burden we have to carry on our own shoulders, the happier our lives will be and the longer we will live. A lot of stress leads to health issues.

[HighValue]

I completely agree on the first sentence, but I think the second sentence only applies the majority of the time, but not always.

The main problem with "successful" women (I am assuming you mean financially) is that by the time she is successful and makes good money, she often has a bad/unacceptable past or is older (past 30) and those are the reasons that she is less desirable to me. Her financial success doesn't hinder her, but her age and past does.

[MzAsh]

Disagree. Successful women have great access to men provided that she is good looking. It may be that she just doesn’t desire those options. Those options are still made available to her, however.

[TsAubreyKate]

No it doesn’t successful or not a woman has the same access she had if she wasn’t because men don’t care about how successful you are

[MzAsh]

Right. They care about looks.

[TsAubreyKate]

Yes, and all you need to do as a woman is look better than a man

[MzAsh]

And most women are considered to have that naturally.

[sage2021]

It depends on what you mean when you say "Have access to". I'm not exactly sure what that means. I cannot even guess unless you just mean sex?

[bolverk]

A successful man has more women available to his because they see him as a catch for the resources he has access to.
The more successful a woman, the less men she has access to, because men do not care what resources she has access to, but more along the lines if the successful woman acts like a man away from her job then men see it like dating a man, and two dominants will end up butting heads.

[Shamalien]

Past a certain point yeah, being more successful career wise as a woman is not going to increase your pool of men, it will decrease it. Being out of debt and able to support yourself is the best place for a woman to be if she wants the biggest dating pool, but have spare time and don’t be married to your career

[UdontNeedtoknow]

Any woman can get a man. They are the gate keepers to sex. Since men are the gate keepers to relationships, all a successful woman has to do is date a man who will appreciate her success.

HINT: It mean she may have to date a man who makes less then her but is a good person.

[MCheetah]

For the most part, I agree. Because women NEVER downgrade to men. So even multimillionaire women need to date men who earn more money and want them to wine them and dine them with weekend trips to the moon like Jeff Bezos and sh*t.

[Avicenna]

Not true about the successful woman. First of all, she has more access to successful men; however, she still is under the sway of hypergamy and expects the men she dates to make more money than her (and have greater social status).

[ragooo8]

Disagree.
The more successful the woman, the higher her standards generally. She still has access to a lot of potential suitors but because she will discriminate based on certain factors like wealth, education, height, age, success etc she's limiting herself to a small pool of men they have to compete with for with every other available woman, men who may actually be looking for and open to younger, more attractive women.

[GlassTop]

Guys date across, up and down. Women date across and up only. Very few women choose to date men who are shorter or make less money or less attractive than them.

[FreyaRed]

Successful in what? Successful sex worker debunks this assumption easily.

[Nomoturtle]

With the added condition that women tend to date up and across, then yes this is true.

[Nomoturtle]

I had to read the question a couple times to understand that "successful" wasn't inherently defined as having more access to the opposite sex where women are concerned.

[ChiTown33]

I'll agree with the first part. But the amount of guys that are open to a woman hinges pretty much solely on her pickiness.

[bamesjond0069]

I wouldn't say a woman has less access but less access to conventionally desirable men. More access to less conventionally desirable men.

[Anonymous]

Yes, but the context is important. Both are the result of women's choices, that's an important detail.

[NathanDavis]

based on my experience, I have to disagree...

[TsAubreyKate]

Of course a successful man has more access to women than an unsuccessful one

[Gal67]

Define the term "success".

[Anonymous]

Depends on the region tbh

[Kiran_Yagami]

In general, agree.