Regarding the issue of financial hypergamy, some shocking facts have come to light.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/many-women-say-they-wont-date-a-man-over-this-one-financial-issue-2017-04-07

More than 1 in 5 women — 22% — say they wouldn’t date someone who makes less money than them, according to a new survey of 3,000 singles across the U.S. from dating company Plenty of Fish. That’s compared with just 4% of men and 11% of single people overall who said they wouldn’t date someone who makes less money than they do. The same study found 85% of singles tell the truth about how much they make.

Money issues are persistently important to people in relationships: More than half of Americans wouldn’t marry someone with significant debt, another recent study from legal industry site Avvo found, and 58% in the same study said they would feel uncomfortable being the main breadwinner in a relationship. The breakdown varied by gender in that study as well: 69% of women said they’d be uncomfortable footing all the bills compared with 46% of men. “People don’t want to be in a relationship that will economically disadvantage them,” said Moira Weigel, author of “Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating.”

On the dark side, women still care about a man's finances more than a man cares about a woman's. The numbers are right there, financial hypergamy is still alive and kicking, and women have plenty of excuses for why this sexist disparity is somehow just. Why they can't be honest and just say "I'm entitled because I'm female" beats the hell out of me.

Now that you know I ain't a feminist at all, on to the bright side. It used to be 100% of women wouldn't date someone who makes less money than them. Now it's all the way down to 22%. 69% of women said they’d be uncomfortable footing all the bills. That's down from 100%. That means we're making some huge progress in society. Things are definitely changing for the better over a long period of time in terms of financial hypergamy. Why can't we focus on that?

When it comes to financial hypergamy not all women are "like that", in fact it seems most women would date someone who makes less money than she does. There's a lot of legitimate gripes that men have about women but this one we can mark as "close to dead."

I love being able to bury gripes.