I am saying that women are generally attracted to certain things even when they spend excess energy to deny such. If you've been around women then you notice what they respond to and what that pattern reflects. If you've dated women then you realize that they respond to some pretty basic concepts.
There is a cognitive dissonance between the message to young people about gender and romance, and the actuality of how it plays out. In my view, this creates a lot of confusion that hangs around through even the college years.
As well, male fallout in society has consequences. We see that in the data on suicides, murder, homelessness and prison populations. Beyond that, there's the population of men who are stuck in a holding pattern. His comment about dating down is facetious. In studies, hetero women tends to not date downward in status. Despite their own success, women still date for reasons of status attainment and wealth.
There are exceptions to all of this, but they are rare enough to make looking for the exception a poor life decision. My darkest fear is that we built society for centuries on the idea that many men would die before hitting age 30. That war, hard labor and risk would ween out the male population so that the need of the people never outweighed society's ability to meet the demand. However, many things have changed. Less men go to war. Less men die young from hard labor. Health has improved. Disease control has improved. We simply have more living men now and society wasn't built to handle their need. So they end up in prison or on the streets or they take their own life in a variety of vices and methods.
And then you get really terrible stinkpieces that talk about how terrible men are and how it must be contained or corrected. It's as if parts of society, given more men than ever before, treats these extra lives as a contagion.
It is a fucked up situation.
