re: Dudes dropping out of dating game.

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Fwiw I think another part of the issue is that women no longer feel the need to settle. A lot of people in my parents generation and even younger got married because the woman needed some degree of financial stability since they usually made less money than men. Now it's different. There are hundreds of thousands of women with e-mail jobs in every major city, they make six figures or close to it, live in nice apartments, have their own social circle, travel, etc. They feel like they don't need to settle for a guy that they're not completely enamored with.

It sounds mean but I see a lot of guys that are about 50+ who are married with kids who if they'd been born 25 years later would be online on some incel board. It's just that back when they were younger women didn't have nearly as many options and were much more willing to settle down.

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There is some truth to this. And I suspect that this may contribute to an even lower fertility rate in the US.

We are following Japan into that problem.