Not sure why the last thread got pruned but user brought up this absolute piece of an article. I can already hear the echoes ringing from the walls.
s m h .com.au/lifestyle/life/why-women-lose-the-dating-game-20120421-1xdn0.html
>''Women labour under the impression they can have it all. They can have the career, this carefree lifestyle and then, at the snap of their fingers, because they are so fabulous, find a man. But if they wait until their 30s they're competing with women who are much younger and in various ways more attractive.''
>'They've swallowed the L'Oreal line: 'Because you're worth it!' There's a real sense of entitlement.''
>That leaves a lot of beta men spending their 20s out in the cold.
>Penny acknowledges part of the problem is her own expectations - that her generation of women was brought up wanting too much. ''We were told we were special, we could do anything and the world was our oyster.'' And having spent her 20s dating alpha males, she expected them to be still around when she finally decided to get serious.
> ''In my 20s, the women had the total upper hand. They could make or break you with one look in a club or bar. They had the choice of men, sex was on tap and guys like me went home alone, red-faced, defeated and embarrassed. The girls only wanted to go for the cool guys, good looks, outgoing personalities, money, sporty types, the kind of guys who owned the room, while us quiet ones got ignored.''
>''I can't believe how many men my age are only interested in younger women,'' wails Gail, a 34-year-old advertising executive as she describes her first search through men's profiles on the RSVP internet dating site. She is shocked to find many mid-30s men have set up their profiles to refuse mail from women their own age.
>but he's confident he will soon find someone with her feet on the ground. ''I'm lucky,'' he says, ''to be in a buyer's market.''