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9. - Hollywood and Madison Avenue are not THAT much bigger, but, today, we just care more about them (i.e. Us Weekly, TMZ, etc.)
10. - the Media is much better at targeting it’s audience today than before and so different demographics can see the same type of images over and over again, therefore reinforcing certain ideas that they may have been leaning towards already (i.e. MTV has teenaged girls, ESPN has 18-44 year old men, prime time dramas have 35-55 year old women, etc.)
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12. All of the above? None of the above?
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14. 144Susan Walsh November 9, 2012 at 11:52 am
15. On the gripping hand, Roissy would probably say that the women currently in hook up culture don’t WANT to date betas during their wild oats years; they want alphas to suddenly agree to LTRs with them personally.
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17. Roissy is right. The women participating and satisfied are unrestricted in their sociosexuality, which is a perfect match for alphas. Personally, I don’t think they’re going to want betas at any point. They’ll either go into marriages with alphas (most of whom will marry), or try to snag men they perceive as high SMV who were actually betas at a younger age, or they’ll stay single.
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19. 145mr. wavevector November 9, 2012 at 11:53 am
20. Mireille @ 114;
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22. I wasn’t trying to define submission, which is a complex and multifaceted behavior. I totally agree with Susan’s remark at #99. I was just giving an anecdote about my wife’s response to my purposely ridiculous demand that was intended to test her compliance. She submitted to me, in that she complied with my demand, but she did so in a way to gain a certain advantage on me, knowing that her cute behavior would elicit a positive emotional response from me. This illustrates how the dominance/submission dyad is in a loving relationship is not a simple matter of top-down authority, but rather a means of mutual influence.
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24. The influence of the subordinate partner is well known in other areas of life. In business it’s called “managing up”. In the BDSM scene it’s called “topping from the bottom”. But in a hetero relationship, dominance and submission have become such “filthy dirty words” (as Ion put it) that we’re reluctant to even think about it.
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26. 146Mireille November 9, 2012 at 11:54 am
27. @Ramble,
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