https://www.independent.ie/life/family/your-20s-might-be-the-prime-time-to-have-a-baby-but-good-luck-finding-mr-right-at-that-stage-of-life-35336920.html

Like lots of other Irish mothers and most of my peers, I just whiled away my time, waiting to have children while going out with one suitable wannabe dad after another, oblivious to my ticking biological clock.

Obviously, this is a total lie. A suitable man of marriageable age, willing to reproduce and be forever faithful in his 20s, is like a stylish mullet - pretty much impossible to find

Biologically, we're best-placed to have children by the age of 25. It makes sense - we're young and have lots of energy and our eggs are in much better shape than they will be later down the line.

That means we have a few years to fulfil numerous feminist milestones laid out for us, too. We have to cram in college and get good jobs so that we can close the gender pay gap down the line. Then, once the baby comes, we need to make sure we can pay for childcare, rent, mortgages and all the other costs that come with reproducing.

In my day and age, men were scared of funny, tall and smart women. The new man is afraid of opinions, gluten, all women and beard clippers. They're scared of chatting up women in case they crush their head between their legs. Because of Lena Dunham and her ilk, men won't even walk you home any more.

So what's the solution? Have a baby with the wrong guy, which can be tedious and suck the lifeblood out of you, or get them when they've got their "me, me, me" time out of the way? Most of my male friends didn't have children until they were beyond 40.

Either way - remember that by procreating with the fun, crazy, good-looking ones with no jobs you thought were great in your 20s, you will pay the price in your 40s. So just go for the more secure, boring ones.

I had a girl in college tell me once that I was marriage material and not dating material as I was not her “type.” It was pretty hurtful but I eventually decided it was water under the bridge as it was college. The next girl who expressed interest in me was a girl pursuing my friend initially and then became interested in me. She legitimately told me she was tired of dating jerks and wanted something with an intelligent, nice and stable guy...

All of this before TRP. But the truth is out there IRL. Lots of talk this week demeaning purps and reds for not understanding what women are attracted to despite media and real world experiences. I guess I had always known, but remained under this false impression that women all had unique tastes and preferences in men.

I think the RP at its core does such a powerful job because it shocks men out of the ‘women are wonderful effect.’ From my experience, women often played a feigned sense of naïveté and innocence of sorts; going so far as being ashamed for normal human bodily functions when they are young to hamstering victimhood rationalizations for often abhorrent acts when older. Women play the game of helpless victimhood extraordinarily well.

Women of PPD, have you ever been given dual-mating strategy advice like this and is so from whom? Men, have you ever been told you were ‘marriage material’ but not ‘dating material? Or vis versa? Is the death of chivalry and gentlemanly acts due to the rhetoric from Lena Dunham’s floppy body? Ever experience real life examples of RP dogma?