William Costello

The nightmare scenario can't do that.

But that pendulum might swing and it might become a bit more loose that people can choose from a variety of different options, which is good.

Right now, the main option seems to be boss bitch energy, but that might cool as it becomes a little less novel that women can do this.

One thing I would like to see happen, but I'm less optimistic about, is that mate preferences...

are very, very sensitive to what we assign status to.

So you can assign status to any number of things.

So it's not outside the realm of possibility that... You mean for men or for men and women?

For men and for women, what makes it... There is some sex difference that physical beauty results in high status for women in a way that it doesn't necessarily for men.

And kind of resources reduces in status and strength results in status for men in a way that it doesn't for women.

But...

Status is to some degree arbitrary.

So there's a really good book by an author called Will Storr called The Status Game.

Really good book.

And it talks about how there's this tribe and they assign status to whichever farmer in their tribe can

grow the biggest yams.

And that is the high status thing to do.

So it kind of shows you this flexibility of status.

So what I'm optimistic about.

Less likely.

But what I mean is the male status, what we assign status to for men could be a bit more malleable.