@GabeLakmann @WashedOutGundamPilot @mkultra This would make sense but you've forgotten or willfully ignored the hypergamy problem. Average guys can't find average mates not because they're not "trying hard enough" but because society has raised every generation of women since the boomers to believe they're entitled to the entirety of the top 5% of dick.

Your "average hometown girl" isn't sitting at home pining away for her average man to sweep her off her feet, she's swiping the same cut 6'3 wastoid that's pump and dumped half her friends on tinder.

inb4 "hurr durr not all women" no, but enough that it skews the dating dynamics. if you're in your mid to late 20s or later, your choices now, especially outside urban areas, are: mudsharks, single mothers, single mother mudsharks, and the occasional nice girl. Cut out the unacceptable life choices and youve got the middle 50 percentile men fighting over 1/10 of the middle 50 percentile women