I’ve talked before about how “opposites attract” is a myth. Couples pair up with people who are similar to them. This is one reason why people perceive hypergamy to be a real phenomenon: reality gets interpreted through a non-random selection filter. A person’s individual experiences are almost never representative of the whole, including one’s peers who will often share the same kinds of experiences. It is very hard to get out of a this kind of bubble, because individuals do not like being around, talking to, or spending time with people who are too different than themselves.
This is how, for example, you can—without even trying—get forums that are made almost entirely of INTJ and INTJ-adjacent personalities. It’s not chance, it’s selection: finely-crafted personal selection that is aggregated at the group level.
And so, regular readers here will not be surprised to learn that smart men prefer smart, educated women, while the less intelligent prefer less educated women.
When a man claims that men don’t like educated women, it reveals nothing about men in general and everything about that particular man’s status.
There is a strong positive correlation between the a man’s intelligence (or lack thereof) and his preference (or lack thereof) for an intelligent spouse. When a man supports or opposing dating or marrying a smart, college-educated woman who delayed marriage and children, it tells you more about him than it does about the topic he is discussing.