This article written by a 39 year old woman in 2011 is so indicative of just how disastrous the consequences are for women in the dating/mating game.

The author admits she threw away the best guy when she was 28, and now is hopelessly stuck in spinsterhood

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/11/all-the-single-ladies/308654/

TL:DR Women have created this disaster for themselves with the radical feminist doctrines, PC movement, adverse reactions to #Metoo, and the advent of online dating and social media.