In my opinion women do understand that they can get laid on the drop of a dime, but must drop their standards in some cases to do so. This doesn’t resolve their cognitive dissonance though. I will illustrate with an experience from my past:
A couple years ago I dated a women I traveled with twice a month to fun spots across the US and beyond, I’d describe her as a solid 8.5 age adjusted, in amazing shape, she definitely turned heads and did not lack for options.
I made the boob mistake of attempting to
“Red-pill” her. We were talking about options for men va options for women of the same SMV. She argued vociferously that I easily had as many options as a woman of equal SMV. I then asked her if she thought she and I were of equal attractiveness, she said yes.
I proposed a test: that she put up a tinder profile for me on her phone, she got to pick k the images and write the profile, i would do the same on Hera, we would then tally the results after 48 hours. She agreed. We put it in her phone and purchased a full access account so we could see right swipes without needing to swipe. In 48 hours I had 92 right swipes, we then proceeded to go through each profile, of 92 I saw 3 women I would even consider contacting based on what I saw. We talked about it, she then held steadfast and said “see you have plenty of options this proves you’re attractive!” I argued what good does it do me if I’d never touch 95% of them with a 10ft pole? Her reply: no this means you are attractive.
In her mind this meant the 386 rights her profile achieved in the same period of time all told her she was attractive, even if there were only 5 guys she’d consider attractive enough to contact.
This was easily the most self aware woman I’ve ever dated and quite smart. So there you have it, the way even an outlier thinks about it is that even though they wouldn’t consider the lion share of the interested men even remotely attractive it still meant to her that she was, definitely a prize.
As has been said repeatedly women simply are different in their mentation and can hold two completely divergent thoughts as truein their consciousness as truths.