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@futurebird The whole creepy incel/PUA subculture is absolutely obsessed with "objective" laws of human desirability, masculinity, femininity, etc. that are based on physical measurements and sound straight out of some 19th-century text on physiognomy. There seem to be a lot of young men who are attracted to this stuff as an explanation for why they have trouble fitting into the world.

What it all reminds me of is a guy on my first-year college dormitory floor who was preoccupied with making these numerical rankings of how cool or extroverted or "alpha" all of the boys on the floor were. I could see him becoming a menace on the Internet but he didn't quite have it at the time.