This degree of fussiness is honestly not all that unusual either, I've seen many examples of this. A woman could have a basic checklist that a man meets on paper but then reject him for some sort of quirk or personality trait that she doesn't like. It could be something like the tone/manner of your laugh, your sense of humor being incompatible with hers, etc. These are basic personal compatibility issues that go much deeper than surface level dating requirements/expectations. However, there can be very nit picky requirements where these women are rejecting tons of men that are otherwise acceptable relationship material. These are very specific things that I'd have difficulty citing but I've seen women reject men for silly reasons.
Female fussiness has reached extreme levels. Female fussiness is fueled by female abundance.
Female abundance is exacerbated by swipe apps and social media. In the pre-internet era, it would have taken a lot for a woman to get abundance. She would have had to be at bars or events a few nights per week and on first/second dates the nights she was not at bars looking for prospects. Even doing this, a woman would not have gotten near the level of abundance that a woman gets on a swipe app or Instagram today.
Women today have longer dating checklists than they had 20, 30, or 40 years ago.
Nurses in a metro area of 1 million+ would have enough prospects.
This is a good example of the stuff I'm talking about, where women are going out of their way to look for things to reject you over.
Many women also happen to work in Human Resources, which does this exact thing with job applicants. The whole point of HR for jobs is to screen out people. A lot of women apply the HR methodology to dating.
reject a plumber or electrician or just about any man that didn't have a college degree, which means jack squat today
Plumbers and electricians can be good prospects. Some women are silly to reject them. They can make some good money.
The bachelor's degree has been watered down since at least the 1990s. Millennials started to enter college in the early 2000s. The bachelor's degrees that Millennials have gotten and that Gen Z is obtaining are less valuable than a pre-1990 bachelor's degree. A higher percentage of Millennials got bachelor's degrees than predecessor generations. More of something in a market diminishes its value.