00:08:40.760Females however, ovulate monthly and endure a strenuous nine month pregnancy, birthing0.89
00:08:46.140only one healthy offspring at a time.0.99
00:08:49.240This makes the reproductive process vastly more taxing for women.1.00
00:08:53.480Therefore, the female biological imperative is to be highly selective, seeking the best possible genetic quality in a mate to ensure healthy offspring.1.00
00:12:36.500This just reminds me of things I was talking about, whether it was last week, the week
00:12:41.080before with the Andrew Wilson situation, is that, I mean, even even with the institution
00:12:48.520of monogamy, it's still widely skewed.
00:12:51.380And these interesting books like The Sun Also Rises or Farewell to Alms and things like this are talking about the fact that there was downward mobility throughout the Middle Ages into the modern period.
00:13:10.700and downward mobility sounds bad but what that is is that upper people who are aristocratic
00:13:18.140wealthier just simply more successful are outbreeding peasants and they're they're the
00:13:26.180third or fourth son is having to go down in the social ladder so the second son might become a
00:13:32.400priest the third son might become a shopkeeper the first son with primogeniture inherits the
00:13:37.060state so there's like a genocide of sorts using that term a little bit ironically or advisedly but
00:13:45.440where the top layers of society were out breeding the bottom layers so we haven't
00:13:52.020really gotten away fundamentally from a situation of you know elk ramming with antlers ramming
00:14:02.600each other to prove who is most fit and powerful and manly in the elk world and aggressive and
00:14:10.260bold. We're still in that world where the high status outbreed the low status throughout time.
00:14:16.500Now, that changed fundamentally. But if you think about prehistory, there was just a radical
00:14:25.260asymmetry in terms of breeding so we have 50 50 more or less one man for every woman one woman
00:14:35.300for every man but that doesn't mean that every man and every woman is going to reproduce
00:14:40.960you you actually had one man reproducing with multiple women and to monogamy moderated that
00:14:49.440And then I think it got really seriously moderated in the 20th century, the mid 20th century.
00:14:56.880Monogamy was essential for civilization itself and primarily benefited common men.
00:15:02.360But Hatfield asserts that this changed dramatically.
00:15:05.720What does he identify as the driving force behind the decline of monogamy in Western society?
00:15:11.280He attributes it directly to the rise of high capitalism, which he defines as capitalism enhanced by technological industry,
00:15:18.800serving the bourgeois class. Hatfield claims capitalism was never designed for the common man,
00:15:24.880but for the profit of a privileged male clique. After the world wars, with communism as a threat
00:15:30.620and the western bourgeois class triumphing, they restructured society to increase profit and power.0.70
00:15:36.900This meant women, who were largely cut off from bourgeois exploitation while at home,
00:15:41.820were encouraged into the workforce. Feminism, he suggests, was allowed to flourish and promoted,
00:15:47.500created, enabling women to earn salaries and consume, which greatly benefited bourgeois0.71
00:15:52.560industries. This economic autonomy for women, combined with what he calls the liberal philosophy
00:15:58.700of the bourgeois class, led to the decline of monogamy.0.90
00:16:02.120So, if I'm understanding this correctly, Hatfield sees feminism and women entering0.99
00:16:07.640the workforce not as a step toward equality, but as a calculated move by the bourgeois0.95
00:16:12.920class to expand their markets and exploit a new labor pool, inadvertently leading to
00:16:18.240this hypergamy state. That's a very cynical interpretation. He must believe liberalism's