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Culture War Roundup for the week of July 14, 2025

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Well broadly if you ask them, they can't find men that meet their standards.

Maybe its politics.

Maybe its the money.

Maybe its about the weight

But its broadly women who are passing on men, not the other way around. Which explains both the large number of single women AND the fact that apparently desirable men remain single.

And the fact that half of Gen Z men are just giving up.

And young women are significantly less likely to report being single.

For those that are:

Close to half (45 percent) of college-educated women say not being able to find someone who meets their expectations is a major factor, while only 28 percent of women without a college education feel the same. This education gap is slightly smaller among men. One-third (33 percent) of college-educated men claim not finding someone who meets their standards is a major factor for them, compared to 19 percent of noncollege-educated men.

DESPITE this, young single men report greater interest in dating than young single women:

There is a significant disparity in dating interest between single men and women. Nearly half (47 percent) of single men report being open to dating, compared to only 36 percent of single women. The gender gap in dating is even wider among young singles. More than half (52 percent) of young single men say they are open to dating, compared to only 36 percent of young single women.

This doesn't make sense if MEN are the ones passing on women.

So yeah.

That's been my point all along and I haven't seen a single piece of data that would refute it, yet.

An 11% (or 30%, depending on how you calculate) difference is not much. Plus the fact that most of the effort of courtship is still expected of men (granted, it’s not that much in the modern world). But it’s easy to imagine those 11% men ‘would be open’ to a relationship with a woman who showed up all baked and ready to go at their door, but aren’t willing to text various women for weeks/face rejection.

Plus the general tendency of women to undercount their sex partners and men to overcount them. That is, men are supposed to want it, women aren’t supposed to want it. If you abandon the chase as a man, you're a loser, and if you're mancrazy as a woman, you could be a slut or a bad feminist. That alone, the shy loser and the shy slut, could explain the discrepancy.

I didn't even mention the most befuddling and depressing stat:

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/02/15/among-young-adults-without-children-men-are-more-likely-than-women-to-say-they-want-to-be-parents-someday/#:~:text=Among%20adults%20ages%2018%20to,t%20want%20to%20get%20married.

When asked about having children, 51% of young adults who are not parents say they would like to have children one day. Three-in-ten say they’re not sure, and 18% say they don’t want to have children.

While 57% of young men say they want children one day, a smaller share of young women (45%) say the same.

21% of childless women say they DON'T want kids, compared to 15% of childless men.

Men by and large want kids.

And the ones they'd have to do it with are by and large NOT seeking kids.

"Oh but 12% isn't that big a difference."

Tell that to the hundreds of thousands of men that represents.

Women are passing on men who would date and marry them. It is not the reverse.

The ONLY way this gets solved is convincing more women to settle and have kids.

Men can't improve their way out of a shortage of women who want kids.

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