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Comment author: OrphanWilde 12 April 2013 11:29:58PM 9 points [-]

If you regard only women, or only men, the cooperate-defect criteria switches; if no woman wears makeup, the one who does gets an advantage over the others. In terms of relative advantage, these behaviors are defection.

I'd suggest this is a more natural perspective, since the group perspective requires unified decision-making. An individual male or female isn't making a decision "for men" or "for women."

Comment author: [deleted] 13 April 2013 09:24:35AM 2 points [-]

Indeed, I used to suspect that opposition to PUA by men was due to essentially a (possibly implicit) cartel.

An individual male or female isn't making a decision "for men" or "for women."

Except insofar as if a woman wears makeup, other women will wear makeup too to keep up.