Questa è la descrizione che ne fa la voce sull'ipergamia di wikipedia in lingua inglese:
"Mating preferences and hypergamy
Studies of heterosexual mate selection in dozens of countries around the world have found men and women report prioritizing different traits when it comes to choosing a mate, with men tending to prefer women who are young and attractive and women tending to prefer men who are rich, well-educated, ambitious, and attractive.[6] Evolutionary psychologists contend this is an inherent sex difference arising out of sexual selection, with men driven to seek women who will give birth to healthy babies and women driven to seek men who will be able to provide the necessary resources for the family's survival. Social learning theorists, however, say women value men with high earning capacity because women's own ability to earn is constrained by their disadvantaged status in a male-dominated society. They argue that as societies shift towards becoming more gender-equal, women's mate selection preferences will shift as well. Some research support that theory,[7] including a 2012 analysis of a survey of 8,953 people in 37 countries, which found that the more gender-equal a country, the likelier male and female respondents were to report seeking the same qualities as each other rather than different ones.[8]
However, Townsend (1989) surveyed medical students regarding their perception of how the availability of marriage partners changed as their educational careers advanced. Eighty-five percent of the women indicated that "As my status increases, my pool of acceptable partners decreases" (p. 246). In contrast, 90% of men felt that "As my status increases, my pool of acceptable partners increases" (p. 246).[9]Saint-Paul (2008) argued that, based on mathematical models, human female hypergamy occurs because women have greater lost mating opportunity costs from monogamous mating (given their slower reproductive rate and limited window of fertility), and thus must be compensated for this cost of marriage. Although marriage reduces the overall genetic quality of her offspring (e.g., the possibility of impregnation by a higher quality genetic male, yet sans his parental investment), this reduction is compensated by greater levels of paternal parental investment by her husband.[10] An empirical study examined the mate preferences of subscribers to a computer dating service in Israel that had a highly skewed sex ratio (646 men for 1,000 women). Despite this skewed sex ratio, they found that "On education and socioeconomic status, women on average express greater hypergamic selectivity; they prefer mates who are superior to them in these traits... while men express a desire for an analogue of hypergamy based on physical attractiveness; they desire a mate who ranks higher on the physical attractiveness scale than they themselves do."[11]
One study did not find a statistical difference in the number of women or men "marrying-up" in a sample of 1109 first-time married couples in the United States.[12]"
In pratica secondo i sondaggi che sono stati fatti, l'ipergamia non è, come sostengono le femministe, solo una tendenza delle donne nelle società in cui le donne sono socialmente svantaggiate, e quindi hanno meno possibilità di accedere direttamente a benessere e potere, ma è una tendenza maggiore nelle donne, come rilevata anche tra uomini e donne che condividevano uno stesso status socio-economico. Le prove, le evidenze che ci sono, danno ragione agli psicologi evoluzionisti, che la considerano più una tendenza innata che socialmente appresa. Questi sondaggi sono in linea con un topic presente in questo forum:
http://www.questionemaschile.org/forum/index.php?topic=11517.0Quello che segue invece è ciò che sostengono le femministe secondo la voce di wikipedia, cose già ampiamente contraddette da quanto ho riportato sopra. Anche se è innegabile che determinate condizioni sociali possono favorire di molto, o limitare un fenomeno, questo non vuol dire che quel fenomeno nella sua dimensione non facilitata da altre condizioni, non sia naturale.
"Feminism and hypergamy
Feminist analysis of hypergamy says the practice needs to be understood in the context of a patriarchial system: men choose attractive partners because they can, and women choose partners with material resources simply because they make life more comfortable. Feminist historians say lower-status families participate in hypergamy because it's felt that the best possible use of a daughter is for her to increase the status of her natal family by marrying up.[17][18] Hypergamy allows higher-status men maximum choice in mate selection, and, as historically practiced in India, results in the man's family gaining wealth through the transfer of dowry from the bride's family.[19] Hypergamy disadvantages higher-status women (by removing high-status men from their mating pool, from which social constraints and economic disincentives already exclude lower-status men) and lower-status men (by removing lower-status women from their mating pool, from which social constraints and economic incentive structures already exclude higher-status women).[20]
Because a hypergamous marriage is unequal, hypergamy has been criticized for reinforcing and perpetuating gender inequality in society overall, for example when highly educated women married to high-income men decide to stay home to raise children rather than pursuing their own careers.[21]"
Fonte:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergamy
