“No it’s not. Higher. Much higher.”
Women do not hit the dating wall at 30, but their chances of finding a guy who will eventually marry them starts to drop sharply. I came across some actual research on this and cited it to a 29 year old friend in an effort to get her moving (she’s now married)
Around 30, women who are dating WILL find themselves losing the interest of “alpha male”/”Prince Charming” types and having to “settle” for regular guys, so I guess that is a “wall” from the woman’s perspective.
Its not just super Alphas they lose the interest of when they hit 30. Its their peers. If they were both in school or were both in the very early years of their careers, a lot of women will turn their noses up at going for guys their own age who rate about the same as them on the 10 point scale. Nowadays at least, younger women have ridiculously unrealistic expectations of what they can get. Reference that poll showing women rating a statistically impossible 80% of men "below average".
So they go for the Alphas who are happy to bed them but would never consider marrying them. Then after failing to get said alphas and/or having a kid by them they hit 30. Their male peers who have been working on their careers are now climbing the corporate ladder, making some money and now appear to be good catches by a lot of women. So the 30-32 year old women now start going for their peers who had shown interest in them in their 20s. Only now, those guys both know she isn't really interested and thinks she's settling AND is now too old. Her early 30 something male peers want what those women were 5-10 years ago, not what they are now. The result is boxed wine, cats and a lot of hate for all men.
Our parents and grandparents generations were a lot more sensible. They married in their early to mid 20s to their peers and built lives together. Those women ended up happier according to opinion polls AND our demographics as a country were a lot healthier....meaning we actually had kids unlike now. Feminism has done HUGE harm to women and all of society. Equality made sense. They went off the rails in the 70s telling women they should be just like men and could have it all. Nobody can. Life is about making choices and trade offs.