I've noticed that the debate re: women settling down in their 30s and men having more power always comes down to the argument that "women lose their youth or that guys are attracted to women who are past their 20s", and I would like to offer another argument that is never mentioned: women losing friends and becoming lonely combined with the societal expectations of being grown up means family and a partner.

Women in college have soooo many friends, and they always talk about how they had sleepovers every night and they had no free time to go out with guys. Why would any women go on dates when she has 20 friends she could go out with every night?

But that friend group always dies, and that's a good thing for men. When friends in the group start partnering up with men they hang out less and less with their friends, which creates the pressure of finding a whole new friend group for the single friend or attempting to seriously find a man in order to not be lonely, which is much much easier than finding friends after college.

The point is that women who have no friends are easier to date, because they're lonely. And the odds of a friend group being broken due to marriage and children or due to career creates an opportunity for men.

One can also infer the reason for why abusers attempt to cut their abused partner from their friends and family in this post, but I won't go into that. The main point is that lonely women are a necessity for men to date, and it's a very good thing that women become lonely as they age.