Only 14.5% of American men are six foot or over.
Add on all the other "must haves" on a woman's list: funny, high status, good paying career & financially secure, lean, athletic, full head of hair, smart, helps in the kitchen, helps with housework, loves children (or not), shares her interests, agrees with her politics ...
You can understand why so many women end up Strong, Independent Cat Ladies in their 40s.
Bars and the internet are not the place to meet marriagable women, at least in my experience.
Met a good one surf fishing on a Sunday morn. We both admitted that our at Church attendance suffered during those seasons when certain marine species were migrating.
A hundred years ago, women with inflated ideas of what kind of guy they "deserved" would get quickly deflated by parents.
This was especially the case when men were expected to marry young and before having sex.