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If young men are dropping out of the competition and resorting to porn instead, then who's staying in the dating environment to keep it competitive? With all those porn dropouts, I should have an easy time dating, right?
The reality is that young men have always been “optional” in society. Biology looms large. Women seek to mate with the most high status males, evidenced by the fraction of men who get the majority of the “action” on dating apps and in life. Thus throughout history we’ve died in the wars and otherwise exist in the margins. An example of the desparity to me is the concept “mansplaining” woke culture disparages. Some wo…
I don't think you can really extrapolate to all of human history from a time when birth control is widely available.
A therapist is recommending therapy to improve men’s relationship skills and to stop watch porn. But the author says the “problem” (for lack of a better term) is women are less interested in dating (focusing on careers and education) and are overwhelmed with their number of choices. This seems like a supply side problem. I’m not seeing how therapy will fix top of the funnel issues.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/understanding-narc...
I would pay attention to demographics more than anything and make sure you live somewhere where there the odds are in your favor. Since more women go to college these days, it makes sense to go to college (as a male).
But the most important thing is to figure out who you are. That is the key super power in dating. You know who you are, your values and what you want. It is OK if it is a work in progress but therapy really helps.
"Young men must re-prioritize real-life relationships and intimacy attuned to the shift in priorities that women have already made" The priorities of women in their 20s are dating men in their 30s. This new stat and the accompanying Boomer commentary is genuinely one of the funniest memes so far in 2023. They literally don't understand the world they created for future generations.
30s single women complain 30s men being creeps for younger girls
Young women do and say things because they can, certain men get away with certain things because they can.
Others complain, because they can’t.
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3868557-most-yo...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
30s single women complain 30s men being creeps for younger girls
I haven't seen that, really. I have seen people interpreting such age gap as a sign of guys immaturity or a general red flag for "that dude is looking to take advantage of you". I have never seen the "I would date that guy but he dates younger girls" thing. Having younger partner is status symbol for a men to show off to other men. It does not make him look like good potential partner to adult women tho.
Women think of men already having a partner as an indication of him being reliable, which is a positive.
I find it fascinating that this article only calls for young men to change their behavior but demands nothing of young women.
> Recent Pew Research indicates that over 60% of young men are currently single. Given that the proportion and dynamics of some-sex relations makes not a big difference here, would this not imply that roughly the same percentage of young women are currently single, too?
(https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3868557-most-yo...)
I find it fascinating that this article only calls for young men to change their behavior but demands nothing of young women.
> Recent Pew Research indicates that over 60% of young men are currently single. Given that the proportion and dynamics of some-sex relations makes not a big difference here, would this not imply that roughly the same percentage of young women are currently single, too?