TONY THE MICE HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH MGTOW
They have nothing to do with human beings either. Yet this model heeds a warning to us.
What causes a man and a woman to separate from one another, is typically despicable behaviors, ideologies and beliefs, much of what I find is false. But one way or another, it'll be implemented while our population reaches critical mass. Kinda like Japan. It's a very congested place.
What deters Japanese men from wanting to date has to do with their economy, and what women expect of them. In Japan, money comes first, and if you ask me that is a recipe for illness in a relationship.
Actually Calhoun was heavily criticized for comparing them to humans too. And this experiment was meant to simulate an over population issue, the rat prison was meant to hold at max capacity 3000+/-, they never got to that point. Before deaths started hitting more rapidly due to old age there was only around 1000 left and like I said before he did the mice universes at least 100 more times ultimately finding that when you give them everything they could want with little to no effort on their parts the mices' social roles and cycles become stagnant, break down and ultimately changes their behavior. The beautiful ones were the outcome and they could not cope or interact to keep themselves alive and continue the species.
Following universe 25 and there a bit after he found that giving them a creative outlets or purpose actually had the mice functioning normally. It was meant to show us the population problem not be used as part of a gender agenda/MGTOW movement
Again, the problem is not singular to Japan. Hikikomori phenomenon (for lack of a better word) has been reported in Oman, Spain, SKorea, Hong Kong, India, France, Austria, the US, China, Brazil and Canada and there's nothing that says states that they choose to go hikikomori because they would rather not have to bother with women when there's a good amount of women that are also hikikomori. The only thing that has been speculated regarding gender is that women might have a better time leaving the hikikomori lifestyle than men. Perhaps they have a better irl support system. It's possible that these people are introverts going hardcore.
As for Japanese men being deterred from dating because of the economy, could you link this?