Since Free Northerner no longer blogs in the Manosphere, I like to repost his material from Twitter.
Amazing trend piece [“Love in the time of loneliness“]: The dating scene is so bad that men who can meet extremely basic requirements are suddenly drowning in female attention. Moderately presentable, decent job, able to hold a conversation, not glaringly weird – this is apparently a rare commodity?
1) This piece has zero data. It’s a handful of anecdotes.
2) The women in the anecdotes are mid-to-late 30s.
High-quality men who are still single in their 40s and willing to date women on the cusp of infertility have always had choice from that.
The male loneliness epidemic has never been about men continuing to play the field into their 40s with questionably-fertile women. It’s about men in their 20s not being able to form families.
Not to be harsh, but the dating lives of singles over age 38 or so don’t matter. They’ve gone beyond the point of being able to start a family and are not a part of the future. As long as they don’t make things worse for families, they and their dating habits are irrelevant.
Free Northerner describes the same things I’ve been talking about: the reliance on anecdotes to form one’s worldview and that the biggest threat to men is not divorce or bad marriages, but not marrying at all. The focus by many on people who are older or “used up” is pointless and irrelevant. The critical age range for both men and women is 18 to 25.
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