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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The slang term "hoeflation" is a blend of the words "hoe" (a derogatory term for a promiscuous person, usually a woman) and "inflation". It is primarily used in online communities and dating forums by men. 
The term is used to describe the perceived increase in effort, money, or self-improvement a man must invest to meet the "inflated" standards or expectations of modern women, particularly those considered to be superficial. 
The concept essentially suggests that:
Women have an exaggerated sense of their own attractiveness and value in the dating market.
Average men are "left in the dust" because these women only pursue men perceived as high-value (e.g., very attractive or wealthy), who may be "out of their league".
The overall "cost" (both financial and in terms of effort) for an average man to find a partner has therefore increased significantly. [/quote]
If you're going to import economics into dating, then you should start with the basics.

For instance, there is no such thing as intrinsic value in economics. The value of an item is simply what buyers are willing to pay to acquire it. Sellers who would be successful must price their wares accordingly.

If your target buyers (the women you consider your equals) don't consider you worth acquiring, then you are a lower value item than you would like to think. The simplest answer is to target buyers at a lower end of the market (the women you erroneously think are beneath you). If you insist on targeting high-end buyers, then you must do market research to figure out what other items valuable to these buyers you can include along with yourself in the hopes that the overall package might be of sufficient value for those buyers. Some items of extra value on the dating market include being extremely courteous, being very attentive to her preferences and needs, being very pleasant company, learning the housekeeping and household running skills that everyone can pick up on but men refuse to etc. This approach, however, requires you to first accept that you're actually not good enough as you are, instead of resenting the higher end buyers that don't want you.

You could also wait and hope for a market disruption that will force higher-end buyers to accept lower value goods. For instance, laws that made women property and stole the value of their labor from them for centuries disrupted the open dating market in favor of men. I don't think those laws are coming back, but I guess you can hope.

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