I'm sure the hookup culture has complicated dating, but I have discovered, while I was searching for statistics on marriageable men to marriageable women, that HVW have always struggled to find HVM. This 1930's interesting study was done on educated women's paucity of choices. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2571258 While it discusses this as a problem of eugenics, which has a problematic connotation, especially for this time period. Understand that today's pursuit of hypergamy is basically eugenics. It is using judicious sexual selection as a means to secure the best future for you and your family from what is available the gene pool. This is how evolution works. Unfortunately, for women, the gene pool is a cess pool as men lack the same discriminating tastes nor a willingness to better themselves.

What we are left with is a morton's fork. We are having to choose between equally bad choices, and dating apps that profit from information asymmetry. Sadly, the limiting factor in "choosing better", has always been men. The amount of high value men to high value women is depressing and this leads to the current dysgenics free fall into idiocracy-esque society. Just remember low quality social interactions are infinitely inferior to high quality solitude.

While I'm sure some scrotes would point the finger at pesky first wave feminists (as they always do when we ask them to do better), something tells me women finding inferior suitors, predates feminism. It just so happens that allowing women to become educated and first wave feminism occurring simultaneously confounds the issue. Apparently according to a finding, single men over 35 are generally mental defectives ladies. This is a PSA that it is not you it is them :)

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