There is a male-version of that joke, but I'm not going to be the one to post it here. lol
I guess you could, except it wouldn’t contain that core of truth that makes a joke funny.
The joke really isn't true about women. For example, if you look at statistics on online dating, which in a way represents all kinds of dating, you'll find that all men tend to message the same small group of very attractive women, whereas women tend to message men they deem less attractive.
That doesn't fit the joke at all, does it?
Also, women tend to find men their own age attractive, whereas men of all ages look for much younger women. So, which one has the impossible standards?
I'm just defending against the women-bashing here. lol In all seriousness, there's hope for many of you who are single. One of my relatives met his soulmate later in life. It's his third marriage. I wish everyone here the same good luck!
“joke really isn’t true about women.”
If it were completely true, the human race would die out. Still, it is substantially true.
“all men tend to message the same small group of very attractive women, whereas women tend to message men they deem less attractive.”
Rather than “all” men, surely we’re talking only about the men who post on those sites. I would call that a small, self-selected sample. It is a group of men who have failed at other means of finding a woman, and who can therefore be presumed to differ from men who date in the usual way and marry happily. They are not, as seems clear, representative of men at large.
The women who post on those sites are equally unrepresentative. As easy as it is for a woman to find a man, these women must be thought to have something catastrophically wrong with them. I’m betting that most of those women have ruined their lives by acting just as the women in the joke did, and most of the rest are, sadly, very unattractive.
Dating services are the last resort for people who can’t get a date, obviously. The poor unfortunates desperately searching for love there cannot be held up as avatars of their sex.
“Also, women tend to find men their own age attractive, whereas men of all ages look for much younger women. So, which one has the impossible standards?”
Women. Absent the civilizing influence of Christianity, it is easier for a successful man to find a younger woman than for an older woman to hold him.
Feminism trades largely on this biological fact to generate the resentment it needs to fuel its continued existence. Men are attracted to younger women, biologically and not voluntarily, because younger women have a better chance of bearing healthy children and raising them to adulthood. It’s in the DNA. You can’t legislate it away; you can’t educate it away; you can’t beat it out of men; and, in the end, there is an upper limit on the age of consent.
A man can grow more attractive with age, but a woman does not. Many women hate that fact so bitterly that it poisons their lives. Some would, I am convinced, raise the age of consent to fifty.
The only solution is found in the Bible, and that solution relies on the faith of the husband and wife.