Young women have shifted from signaling dignified traits to base ones. Historically, "good" girls understood their value came partly from virtue and didn't want to be mistaken for sluts. Today, that's changed. "Pretty" is dead. "Hotness" has replaced it—temporary, consumable, and must be used quickly. Pretty was cherished; hotness is discarded. Women's liberation paradoxically turned women into a product to be used up.

When young women realize they have little else to offer beyond sexuality, they compete in a race to the bottom. They signal hotness through provocative dress, but real hotness is confidence, environment, trust, and intimacy. Dressing like a streetwalker is transparent manipulation. True hotness requires depth. Instead, many cheapened themselves through sexual competition, competing on appearance alone while neglecting substance.

The male psyche operates with two distinct markets: one for relationships, another for sex. Many women are unaware of this distinction due to poor reasoning, apathy, or narcissism. The relationship ladder tolerates lower sexual value because it requires less sexual display in exchange for commitment. Men often marry women less physically hot than their most attractive flings because relationship value operates on different criteria entirely.

Women who prioritize hotness over other qualities position themselves for the sexual marketplace, not relationships. They compete on temporary physical attributes while neglecting qualities men value for partnership: stability, intelligence, loyalty, warmth. By over-indexing on sexual display, they reduce their value in the marketplace where commitment actually matters.