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They’ll still have a fighting chance of producing a few nippers, of course — but will they do it by settling for a much younger companion who falls far short of the intellectually equal but by now hopelessly barren soulmate they went out with in their tirties?

Thanks, Mr. J. Here is the strawman that I encounter all the time, and it's mentioned in my Savage Nation radio demo as you not.

Simply, there is no reason to believe that any man will be necessarily 'settling' for an inferior female. Why is a woman 10 years her junior assumed to be 'far short' an intellectual (and I have to add, emotional) equal? One doesn't necessarily follow the other.

There is an almost pathological need for women in this niche to put down their younger sexual rivals as somehow inferior to them. In some cases, that's true. In other cases, it's not. I'm reminded of a friend of mine who is in his late 40s and had another romance implode. "But I learned something!" Well einstein, what the hell did you learn from this meltdown that you didn't learn from the last 18?

There comes a point of diminishing returns: I think the years between 20 and 25 add a lot of maturity in most women. I think the decade between 25 and 35 adds some maturity, but it's not a significant amount vis a vis romance and relationships. There is certainly no reason to think a 25 year old woman who has her act together is notably inferior to a 35 year old woman with more misadventures under her belt.