As a men sure, as a woman? never been lower, like others have said even the morbidly obese chicks come with a list of requirements now.
As the thread suggests, men have just as many expectations and requirements from women now as well. I think this post pandemic dating crisis is self perpetuating at this point because everyone spent too much time thinking about themselves and it's pretty hard for people in the dating scene to consider that although there may be some gendered issues, on a whole everyone is kind of shit. A few years ago I used to take it more personally but now Ive come to fully accept that George Carlin quote about stupid people.
There's just way, way, way more stupid, unattractive (looks and or personality), boring or otherwise gross people than there are those who are more fully conscious of their life experience. Unfortunately I think if you're on a place like the Farms you probably fit into the latter which can create an echo chamber of frustrations which are all probably more or less true about dating experiences in general but applicable across the board. Perhaps if others consider this thought, they'd feel less negativity about women or men and just focus on finding the person you can stand to be around the longest in an otherwise cold/annoying/stupid society.
When I talk about men now, it's mostly in reference to the fact I date men. If I really truly thought all men for sure were faulty humans, I'd be a lesbian by choice. I don't need dick that badly if it were true all men rape or abuse etc. I can, however, wade through all of the stupid people, which happen to be a pool of men, to try and find the one(s) I can tolerate enough to care about.
One gendered issue is match ratio on apps but again, if you consider it in the theory of everyone is stupid - there's a larger portion of people, primarily men, who swipe on everything or swipe as though they can game the algorithm. A person, primarily women, who swipe with more intention based on the behavior of selective breeding in mates within biology, will more often match with someone who saw perhaps a single photo for half a second before swiping. Suddenly they realize the incompatible factors after reviewing and the match is a dead end before the conversation begins. But just because stupid people outnumber the smarter ones does not mean a smarter person won't swipe with intention and end up stuck in a pile of 15 dead end conversations in the others inbox.
As I said before, dating has become depersonalized and gamified probably primarily due to the apps and algorithm and how society chooses to use them. Even if you're not using them, the environment is adapted for them. Tinder is probably as insidiously evil as Meta and Amazon and Google in terms of population control and data collection.
But I'm sure all of the above is actually why I'm single overall.
