Stolen post from some anon on X.

Being a huge bitch used to be a fast way for women to signal they were high status

“Look how awful I can be. The fact people tolerate this implies I’m so desirable that they let me do it”
But being awful is a very easy status signal to fake, so many normal and low-status women started doing it to pretend they were hot too

Eventually, Team Bitch realized something:
“If we can get ALL women to do this, we won’t have to try or be pleasant ever again, because men won’t have an alternative”

So they started calling women who make effort to appeal to men “pick-mes” to whip them into shape and get them back on the Bitch Plantation

It’s Sisyphean, though. The more bitchy the average girl is, the more men value one whos pleasant
So the closer Team Bitch gets to success, the more any given woman stands to gain by defecting to Team Pickme

This is basically the same dynamic with male feminists, just in reverse
At the beginning of the Woke Era there was a ton of value in being one of the few men who defected to the women’s side because there were so few people who did this
But as time went on, more and more guys flipped to get girls, so the benefit got diluted

Eventually it provided no benefit at all, and guys just kept doing it because they thought they had to or they’d never get laid

This unlocked a male version of the “I’m hot enough to be a bitch” option:
“I’m rich and cool enough that I’m not scared to tell you about my horrifying politics”

You can learn a lot about people based on what part of the cycle they defect in

Early defectors are clever, but you probably shouldn’t trust them
Late defectors are much more trustworthy, but also retarded
Never-defectors are too high-status to believe in things like “tradeoffs” and they will continue doing whatever they want without ever considering any of this game theory