rainbowstar wrote:UnluckyPaladin, maybe you are describing some elements of contemporary sociology? Firstly, if you live in American or UK or some place like that, there's a big problem with obesity; obesity is not usually considered attractive by many men, and with obesity rates running above 60% in the English-speaking parts of the world, that reduces the pool of attractive women by over half. Secondly, there's also a big issue with egoic consciousness in the USA and UK and so on, the result is a lot of mental illness in the form of workaholism, status fixation, and accumulation fetish: obviously not very attractive qualities in a potential mate. Thirdly, one of the ironic results of feminism is that while women have improved their social standing significantly, many women continue to seek partners who they perceive as their superiors: richer, taller, and better social connections: the result of this persistent "marrying up" phenomena in a woman's world is that heaps of desirable and successful women can't find any man who is their better and so they remain single: in the article I've linked below it's estimated that two-thirds of "A-class women" remain single. What these contemporary sociological facts add up to is an environment where many men are not able to find a partner.
http://travel.cnn.com/shanghai/life/sha ... ack-085575
I think you and me are really talking about the same problem here. Your post may be a better explanation than mine, really. Of course women will deny it. People with an advantage always says it's just hard work. It's human nature. But the demand level difference between the genders, despite similar numbers, is a total sick joke (more on that below). And there has to be a reason behind it. Again, your post may be even closer to the full truth.
Even if pedophilia isn't really much of a solution for most men in this position. It does act as a bit of a crutch for me. Even though I do find little girls appealing, anyway.
Since women are nearly equal to men now, they need to be more open to men that are their equals instead of thinking they need to go up. I think this is a real phenomen, and leaves a lot of men in the dust.
For a bit of proof, just try setting up a couple of fake dating profiles for an experiment. A reasonably attractive male one and similar female one. Don't put any text that would appeal much to anyone, so that you know the results are all about the genders of the profiles. I've actually done this. I have actually done some homework on this issue. I'm not talking out of my ass.
Here is about what happens:
The male one will be mostly a ghost town will tumble weeds blowing through. While the female one will get a huge storm of interest. It will have hundreds of messages within days. And probably already have filled up the message limit of the site in well under a week. The only difference is the gender. Women are HUGELY, HUGELY more in demand. A ton of men just arent getting a mate. And I think it has at least something to do with your post.
Men will mostly take someone just to have a girlfriend. While women mostly won't. If they can't have the higher status man. And they CAN'T ALL. Then they just stay out of the dating market. Therefore the massive disparity in demand level for women versus men. It's certainly there. Try the experiment yourself and see. And I think this may be part of the puzzle.