There are three primary human status games in all human cultures: dominance, merit and virtue.

A dominance status game is based primarily on physical size and ability to intimidate others and appear to be able to protect oneself and one’s own space, but also to compel others to do what they do not desire necessarily to do by either intimidation, threat of physical violence, or the actual exercise of physical violence.

This status game is intended to curb violence because the behaviors are primarily about signalling intimidation to avoid conflict and not actually engaging in conflict. It can also be misleading. It isn’t based on any actual prowess in fighting or self defense, but in looking intimidating. Which is why this game of status is probably the most asinine and the one that most humans are ready to disengage from.

The second is the merit status game which is the most valuable of all the status hierarchies since it seeks to grant status and high prominence to those individuals who have earned the respect of others and have usually benefited society and many other people through their work and their striving to be disciplined and accomplished.

This hierarchy is only problematic when it does not permit merit to be the only deciding factor and when it seeks to compel by fiat a forced high standing to an individual with only the appearance of merit. Rich people sending kids to expensive Ivy League schools is one such example. It is a form of corruption since it corrupts both the dominance hierarchy and the merit hierarchy.

The third is the virtue status game. This game is the most commonly practiced among women, competitiveness in the dominance hierarchy is pretty well impossible for them due to biological factors and so most women don’t even bother playing in the dominance hierarchy directly, but rather use virtue to play in the dominance hierarchy by assuming the position of a righteous victim. Thus, when feminists attack men for their nature or for competing in the dominance hierarchy, they’re not engaged in the pursuit of Justice, rather their engaged in a passive aggressive female aggression form of competition in the male dominance hierarchy by deprecating

We can see right away dialectically, using a hegelian approach, why the virtue category has become so saturated that even virtue can be made to be pathologized and monetize and commodified. In a world of 8 billion people, there are many many high status and practitioners of all of the status game hierarchies. And vast majority of women exclude themselves from the other two simply by who they are. They don’t play in the dominance hierarchy and most of them or many of them choose career paths and life paths that exclude them from ever being somebody extraordinary by their accomplishments. So almost all women play exclusively in the virtue status hierarchy and there is no more powerful position in that hierarchy than that of a righteous victim. Thus you understand why there are competition who can be the bigger victims it actually dialectically grants the highest status position in the only status hierarchy than most women play all the time