From a very young age, I noticed a pattern. A lot of the girls in my grade would date boys in older grades. Women in their early 20s would start dating men in their 30s and even beyond. A good chunk of women use marriage and relationships with men as a way of upward social mobility. This is what happens when you barely like the opposite sex.

The world has changed a lot. If you live in an actually developed nation, you'd see that women are not only matching but outpacing men in a lot of thriving fields. Since women want at least equal and ideally up, their dating pool is shrinking. But it is not men doing the shrinking. It is her. People have it backwards. Women's success does not turn off men from her. It turns her off from men who make even a cent less than her.

I know this part of pure anecdote but I'm quite shocked with what I see these days in the outside world. Women nowadays are dating up even in the looks department. It's amazing what you can achieve when you don't budge and the other party is desperate. I've seen tons of fit, conventionally attractive men with "mid", overweight, or even "ugly" women. What youth and beauty is to women, height and status is to men.

Despite all the progress women have made, they still cling to certain "patriarchal" ideals. And one of them is that the man she's with has to be better than her. Bigger, stronger, richer. As cheesy as this sounds, this narrative still not only exists but thrives. Even among the self proclaimed feminists. A lot of women turn oddly "trad" when you ask them who should court who, who should plan dates, pay for vacation, pay for the lion share of family expenses, and so on. For the life of me I don't understand the logic behind this. Even when the man and woman make roughly the same, the man almost always ends up paying much more. "His money is our money, but my money is my money." Feminism has also played a part I'm sure which is why regular women feel entitled to top tier men and then act surprised when they're used as an easy f**k.

There isn't an explanation for this other than a "redpill" one. It seems a man's life in some way has less value than a woman's which is why he has to make up for it in other ways. He has to "chase" and "compete." Perhaps this is what happens when there is a big attraction gap.