We've discussed this many times on this forum and I've actually had this conversation with some people I know, family, etc. I've literally cited examples of boomer males that these people knew that got married and had children and mentioned that if they were born in the 90s they'd never get dates, let alone get married or have children. I've noticed that the older generation did not pick up on this idea about 10 years ago but I've noticed that over the last couple years they are now aware of this issue. Again, when you are seeing such things discussed on a mainstream news channel, such as CNN, you know it's a problem that people are now becoming aware of.
In 2021, the median age of a CNN viewer was 64, and the median age of an MSNBC viewer was 68. I've not seen Fox News' stat on that for 2021, but in the 2010s, Fox News' median age viewer was late 60s.
Boomers are the median age viewer on cable news as well as TV newscasts like NBC Nightly News.
What you're seeing right now is that more and more Boomer and early Gen X'ers have adult sons somewhere between age 20-40. These Boomers and early Gen X'ers are seeing a larger percentage of their sons struggle in the mating marketplace. When the Boomers and early Gen X'ers were under 30, people in the mating marketplace only struggled if they were abnormally flawed. For instance, Neil Strauss is an early Gen X'er, born in 1969. Neil Strauss was a borderline incel in the late 1990s/very early 2000s before getting involved with Mystery and other PUAs due to his 5'6" height and baldness. Now, it's not only flawed guys who struggle but men who are too ordinary.
In the 1970s-1980s, a 50th percentile man had a fighting chance of achieving modest goals in the mating environment. A 50th percentile guy who was 25 years old in 1980 (born 1955 - so typical Boomer) either could count on getting married soon or was already married. They could get a wife who wasn't overweight. Maybe it'd work and maybe they'd have children. 25-40 year olds today who are the 50th percentile man are basically trash to similarly aged women.
Men in this category, $75k-$125k salary, relatively in shape, drive a good car, has a few hobbies, women do not want. Why? Because this man has standards. Women do not want to work for their men. Women of today want a simp or a millionaire. Simple as that. This is what society aka social media...
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The thread above was about men who are above average in salary ($75k-125k) and even looks getting sent to the rejection pile. When a man making $90k struggles to get dates and also struggles to get more than 2-3 dates with any woman, that's problematic. There are more and more instances of men, even strong earning women, failing to get women's attention for any meaningful sort of period.
Online dating (both the swipe apps and the social media DMs) contribute to this. Online dating has partially replaced social circle and nightlife venues for starting interactions as compared to the 1970s-1990s, when the Boomers and Gen X were young adults.
