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I saw this chart over on the MGTOW sub that they say demonstrates the Wall (they're right: it does). Obviously they got it from PPF (don't brigade them... I mean it), where they claimed it shows that men are shallow when it comes to attraction while women feel attraction in an "age-appropriate" manner.

It doesn't show that at all.

The Tl;dr is that a chart that shows

A woman's age vs the age of the men who look best to her

would correspond almost exactly to a chart that shows

A woman's age vs the youngest age of the men who make 20-25% more money than her.

In other words, women feel physical attraction for men who make a comfortable amount more than they do, but only to a point. The sweet spot seems to be around 20-25% more than whatever she makes. Older men may make even more, but once a man has crossed that income threshold she prefers (relative) youth over even more money. Even the sharp turn the "attraction" graph takes in the 40-45 range fits the pattern. Anyway, I offered this observation (at MGTOW where I am a regular contributor, not PPF, where I'm probably shadow-banned).

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We know from the big study released last year that the average "ideal potential husband" earns 58% more than the average available man. We also know that the average woman wants a man who makes more money than she does. The third thing we know is that income rises with age.

What we can extrapolate from all that if we apply it to the graph is that as women age (and make more money) their expectation for a man's salary goes up at the same rate. I would bet that a chart that tracked relative income over time would look very similar to the graph on the left.

In short: men chase beauty and women chase money. All those two charts really show (or rather try very hard not to show), is that women are every bit as "shallow" as they claim men are.

[I added this edit after I found the data I was looking for.]

IFoundTheData

Here it is. My theory was correct: I looked at the average income for women by age and compared it to the average income for men by age, and guess what? The age at which a man "looks good" to a woman is almost exactly the age at which his income is around 20-25% more than hers is. It follows the left chart almost perfectly, including the sudden shift in the curve around age 40. That corresponds with the time at which most men's incomes stop climbing (or climbs at a much slower rate). So the moment increasing age no longer translates into increased income, women's preference for increasingly older men stops. Once the money stops increasing they stick with the youngest men who make 20-25% more than they do.