Before, I think in this thread, I mentioned how I thought women's gym culture is a bad development. A quick google search convinces me a lot more women have signed up for gym memberships and the last time I set foot in a YMCA I noticed a lot of young women lifting weights and looking a lot better than I remember young women looking in the 90s and 00s. As much as we all like beautiful women, I'm concerned its actually a net negative for society.
Both men and women go to the gym to get in shape in order to attract a high-status partner if they are not already hitched or have other plans, such as body dysmorphia and addiction to working out. We all know women are hypergamous, they don't date down. Essentially the amount of men who work out hasn't changed, but the amount of women who work out has increased. Women have been drawn into an arms race where they are raising the average attractiveness of all the women in the dating pool. Each woman's relative attractiveness matters more than her absolute change. In order to stay competitive, more women have to go to the gym.
If women who were previously dating average men now feel they can access better men due to their improved appearance, they move upmarket, which increases competition for the top men and leaves more average men unmatched. I think the more women get into the gym the more unbalanced we will see the dating market. More people will stay single or be dissatisfied. I am also thinking of young adults, not old folks.
I think the gym culture of our times is an aid in the destruction of modern women. With all of these women now in the gym, you don't hear about Gen Z mentioning how great dating is, instead they experience even more scarcity.
A conclusion I have, perhaps regrettably, formulated is this: men can't complain about the women in their church being less attractive than the thots at their gym or on Instagram. Those less attractive women are there for the taking, it's their faith that is more important. One can always encourage a healthy lifestyle after the fact.
It isn't gym culture that is the culprit, but this observation is a good observation in the decline of society. Gym culture is just the next step. This happened to men after "Pumping Iron" came out. My dad was athletic, he played college sports, and he barely ever worked out in a gym. He played in men's sporting leagues and push mowed the lawn, but I never remember him really lifting weights. He had a family by the time Pumping Iron came out, and going to a gym was just largely not a thing for men their age.
I started to hit the gym as soon as I could. And in the early 1990's it was a almost a fringe thing for men. It was mostly single guys or some athletes, who were willing to put in extra effort. By the late 1990's, with boy bands and women having more freedom to behave like whores, more men started to flood the gym in a "arms war" to attract women.
Now it is women's turn, they are now stepping up to the plate and hitting the gym in this "arms war". The difference is, the men did it to be attractive to women, as with women's hypergamous nature, they are doing it to land a wealthy/top level man. The outcome desire is different. And most women will be very disappointed, simply because these men are very rare and in high demand.
I would not be surprised if some men start to lightly use make-up to try to attract women. Not a lot, but some, though it seems like most men are at their wits end and have gone as far as they will go in trying to attract a mate, because nothing is good enough for most women, other than being very wealthy, which is just simply out of reach for most men.
I saw a good quote on women's equality, and it was basically that women were failing so miserably and destroying everything, that either western men would remove women's equality one day to save their countries or eastern men would conquer the countries due to controlling their own women, and no matter which will happen, the women of the west will sigh a heavy relief. Women are not designed for responsibility, working 40 hours a week, and all the nuances that come with being a man. Even as easy as we make it for them, and men still take on most the burden, women are unable to handle it. And as time moves forward and the average man has less and less to offer women, women will be stuck with more and more burden. Now to the point an estimated 8% of women 18 to 25 in the USA are on Only Fans and the Sugar Daddy craze is exploding.
Women's equality has been a strong lesson learned, and it is a massive failure for everyone. Women are begging for it to be removed with their actions and not their empty words. But it will not be removed for a long time due to the satanic elites making it center of their desires. So, until that time, we will see the collapse of civilization. Which will be 90% of women chasing 5% of men, and 95% of men saying "I don't care about anything" which will then cause the collapse. And in this case, it will be men with children who will be impacted the most as their kids will inherit this hellish world.
Oh, and if anyone is interested, see who the usual suspects were behind the rise of bodybuilding for men in the west.