But Cooper contends that women choose lower-paying careers men choose careers that involve riskier work and thus earn more. For example, modern feminists insist that the fact that women make less than men is a sign that women aren’t as valued as men, and anyone who claims otherwise is a misogynist. Cooper argues that now, the world is so female-oriented that anything that doesn’t center around women is automatically seen as misogynistic. What is new is how this social order manifests in the modern day. Modern data bears out the idea that men subject women to sexual violence in conflict (and post-conflict) situations: In Invisible Women, Caroline Criado Perez writes that 250,000 women were raped in just 100 days during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.) But he doesn’t acknowledge that these women were forced into those sexual relationships to stay alive. (Shortform note: Cooper sees the fact that men had children with the widows of the tribesmen they conquered as evidence that society valued the women. The conquerors spared the widows so that they could bear children, and the widows consented because the conquerors were now the highest-status men. This isn’t anything new: Cooper writes that as far back as 20,000 years ago, tribes and empires sent men to die in wars-and if they conquered another tribe, they killed all the remaining men. But Cooper says that in reality, our society highly values women and harms men. In the modern world, most of us learn that society primarily values men and harms women. The first big lie, according to Cooper, is that women are second-class citizens. In The Unplugged Alpha, Richard Cooper argues that modern society has taught men three lies that have given them unrealistic views of how the world works. Unraveling the 3 Big Lies: How Society Actually Works Specifically, men have been led to believe that women are second-class citizens, that masculinity is a bad thing, and that humans are monogamous.īelow is a brief overview of Richard Cooper’s The Unplugged Alpha: The No Bullsh*t Guide To Winning With Women & Life. In The Unplugged Alpha, Richard Cooper-best known for his YouTube channel “Entrepreneurs in Cars”-argues that modern men have been taught three big lies regarding how society works. What is Richard Cooper’s The Unplugged Alpha about? What is the key message to take away from the book? Like this article? Sign up for a free trial here. Shortform has the world's best summaries and analyses of books you should be reading. This article is an excerpt from the Shortform book guide to "The Unplugged Alpha" by Richard Cooper.
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