Her opinion is not close to my perception of what reality looks like.
The fact that having a side chick is so widespread is a major problem.
Our generation simply has a massive gap when it comes to infidelity. Guys see having two girls like a status symbol. On the other hand, if girls do it, we’re promiscuous. The truth is that men who would have a side chick deserve no chick at all.
If this were true, there would be no pandemic of male thirst. At best, maybe 10% of men have this going on. The writer of the article is probably spending too much time chasing the top 10% on swipe app and ignoring the rest of the market.
Guys have gotten increasingly demanding with looks.
It’s all too common to hear guys bemoan how they can’t get a hot girl while they themselves bring little in terms of looks to the table. The fact that men, who often look like troll dolls with pot bellies, will demand to have a solid dime is hypocrisy at its finest. They should learn to be more open-minded about looks. After all, most girls I’ve met will give a not-so-hot guy a shot if his personality is good.
It's my perception that men are settling more. Due to an abundance of single men to single women in the 20s/30s cohort, a simple analysis of numbers indicate that men will have to date down on looks more than women will have to do that. Also, single moms are not having a difficult time finding men for sex or even for relationships, an indication of a marketplace heavily skewed towards women.
4. Statistically, women are more likely to be employed than men.
This means that some guys can’t even
put food on the table. Traditionally, that’s their job. While that could suggest more stay-at-home dads,
statistics show that women still will also end up doing most of the work around the house, too. So, why would anyone marry someone who’s basically unable or unwilling to contribute anything? If he’s not working and not homemaking, he’s not worth it.
Yes, men are more likely to have employment problems. In a lot of ways, this is the culture's fault.
Due to pervasive feminism, women are given preferential treatment at work.
Many male centric lines of work have been declining for decades, such as manufacturing and blue collar work. Females have rarely worked in these industries, either before or after second wave feminism of the 1960s/1970s. A lot of men who as high school graduates in 1970 would have gotten some decent paying blue collar job without pursuing higher education became low wage service sector workers if they graduated from high school after the mid-1990s without higher education. Low wage service sector workers have reduced SMV.
The men who pursue higher education and white collar work get a raw deal as well. This is compounded if they are white men. In white collar environments, white men are vulnerable. As a whole, men absorb more layoffs than women in white collar. When a white collar man gets laid off, he has a longer journey to re-employment than a low wage service sector male. White collar men are sexually judged more upon their employment status, so this is a major SMV hit. It is pretty common for a white collar male to get dumped by his wife, girlfriend, or even casual flings when a layoff occurs.
I have worked in white collar environments where women, especially non-white women, are given preferential treatment on assignments, promotions, and RIFs as compared to men.
On the rare case that a woman gets laid off, her SMV has the potential to increase due to having free time. Men never judge women on their jobs, and a lot of time women's jobs get in the way of their attractiveness. Career obsessed women are often attitudinally unattractive and exhibit behaviors that are turn offs.
These are examples about how male privilege is a myth.
5. Rudeness is at an unprecedented level.
It’s true, and if you don’t believe it, just go on OKCupid and talk to some men. Generally speaking, men who are fine with being rude to women before a date even starts aren’t worth dating, marrying, or even speaking to.
Female rudeness is at an unprecedented with the ghostings, flakings, and entitled behavior that I'm about to examine. This is projection.
6. Our generation is plagued with the way that we’re always looking to “trade up.”
We trade up jobs all the time. We trade up our iPhones, our furniture, and at times, even our friends. Sadly, our generation also tends to take this attitude with significant others. While this isn’t always a common sentiment, it happens frequently enough that certain guys just don’t realize what they had until they are old, alone, and traded out.
11. Men are way too entitled.
We have to dodge guys who feel entitled to sex. We have to deal with men who think they deserve a supermodel when they have faces that look like feet. We have to deal with guys who call us shallow when we reject them for not even having a job going for them. Eff. That. Noise.
With the “winners” in the current dating pool, who can blame girls for staying single?
Number 6 is classic female hypergamy. Women look to "trade up" more than men.
Female entitlement is at unprecedented levels due to women's swipe queues. The average woman on a swipe app now is now pursued by a larger quantity of men and with more zeal than a typical 22 year old female celebrity in the pre-internet era of 1985.