Summary: Female tries to justify the CC with so-called “math.”

Body: The female writer of this article tries to justify the cock carousel and the optimal time to jump off: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/16/when-to-stop-dating-and-settle-down-according-to-math/?postshare=9871455661531890&tid=ss_fb-bottom

She begins the Washington Post article with the “dilemma” of the dating market: “Settle down early, and you might forgo the chance of a more perfect match later on. Wait too long to commit, and all the good ones might be gone. You don’t want to marry the first person you meet, but you also don’t want to wait too long.” She doesn't make it clear she's referring to the sexual marketplace from a woman's perspective, and the BP male reader might assume it applies to them too, but further reading suggests otherwise.

The unmentioned implication of settling down early is that a young career woman like her won't enjoy the CC and being wined and dined by so-called “suitors” as she terms the eligible mates that come and go in a woman's dating life.

In a slight nod to RP truth, she does concede that a carousel rider shouldn't wait too long. The unmentioned implication is that a woman's youth and beauty are quite perishable commodities in the sexual marketplace.

Ah, so when is the optimal time for a young woman to jump off the CC?

The hamster has nice pseudo-statistical answer, backed by research: “The magic figure turns out to be 37%.”

How convenient. 37% roughly correlates to a point in the average CCer's dating career when she's about in her late 20s or early 30s. Just at the point when her SMV decline is accelerating (oh, it already hit the down slope a long time ago). Just at the point when her long term need for a beta bux is higher than her short term lust for a Chad.

Sadly, the 37% figure still leaves a lot of room for interpretation for a determined and delusional CCer. 37% of what? If a woman in her late 20s thinks she's only dated 20% of the eligible men she's met so far, then she still has a way to go before meeting that “magic” 37% number, in her mind.

The hamster spins its wheels even faster as the writer adopts the tone that the woman is the prize in marriage, that after a parade of “suitors” she finally selects that 37% guy to be her lucky husband.

She concedes the ideal situation would be for a person (i.e. a woman ) to have all their potential mates available to choose at once, but unfortunately in real life one must go through a series of relationships to find the perfect match. Actually, there is a time when a young woman does have a larger number of potential and willing mates to evaluate almost simultaneously. It's called college.

The final kicker is that the “Sultan's Dowry” problem which the writer quotes to cloak her article in an aura of pseudo-science deals with a man choosing among suitable brides and their respective dowries.

The reader comments in the original article reveal that thankfully some men are RP enough to call bulls*** on the ideas promoted by this article.

Lessons Learned: The lamestream media is constantly justifying a woman's hamstering and CCing.