I’ve known a number of women, who had been star students, who found the people with whom they were surrounded to be fake, shallow and elitists. So they went with men from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, thinking that they would be more genuine.

It was a disastrous course of action. The men saw them as crazy and arrogant, and they treated them like dirt. This was regardless of how good a person the woman attempted to be and however hard she worked on the relationship.

The men had what I call the Kevin Federline syndrome. They thought that they were better than the people in the elites. They believed that they understood life better and that they had better ethics. Their solution was to get together with the most
attractive woman out there and treat her like dirt. That way they got to be part of the elites while considering themselves better than the elites and while wiping their ass with their finest product.

In fact, in most cases, the woman worked harder than they did and did a lot more heavy lifting in the relationship. Which means that these men had no right to see the woman in such a way. The men got tons of things out of the relationships with these
women, but they weren’t willing to do their part and reward the woman with good treatment. Instead they claimed them to be bad people and out of that consideration treated them like dirt.

Now there is a lot of anti-elitist sentiment out there; but many people in the elites in the West bear the regular people no ill will. In fact they tend to view them in positive light, and many want to improve their lot. So we have the kinder, more
compassionate women in the elites go with men from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, while the meaner and nastier ones become status climbers and go with other men in the elites. The first get mistreated; the second tend to do well. And that results in
the best in the elites getting abused and the worst getting rewarded.

Scott Lasch wrote a book called “The revolt of the elites.” What he forgot to say is that the institutions of liberty are owed to one. It was called European Enlightenment. The aristocrats revolted against the monarchic order and wanted to empower
the rest of the population with liberty and democracy. And without this revolt of the elites, an average American or an average Australian would be a serf in a hidebound European monarchy, working a 2-acre plot of land, living till age 30, and getting
his sons drafted into the military and his daughters into domestic servitude. That there are people in elites who are jerks, is most certainly correct. But there are also good people there as well, and the fact that they are in the elites does not make
them worse than an average person.

Far be it from me to say that one class is better than another. But when I see the world’s better women getting mistreated by its worse men, I have things to say on the subject. That a woman comes from a higher socio-economic background no more makes
her bad than if she comes from a lower one. There are good people and bad people in both places. And the better ones do not deserve to be mistreated for the sins of jerks.

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