And I’m not saying it’s not a challenge to find someone you can live with, on either side. It’s just this entitlement mentality that is being sold and women are buying more and more.
It doesn’t help either that in the culture the feminist agenda to derail men as competent, good parents, good husbands, and the active discouragement of them in school, the feminization of the public schools and getting rid of male teachers at all levels (thus getting rid of more potential good role models and authority figures) aren’t helping things to turn boys into solid men either. Our culture is doing its best to denigrate men, lower their standards and expectations and replacing adult men with “the government” as provider and benefactor, of all races and colors.
The women buying into this whole ‘settling’ thing automatically are assuming they are pretty much flawless, at least with respect to any man they might end up with. Falls right in line with the rest of the junk being pushed against men. They don’t even know they’re just being used. And why not? It’s a really pleasant lie to believe.
Hence the increasing number of 35-year old "men" trapped in a two decade long "extended adolescence", wearing the same clothes, listening to the same music, watching the same TV shows and movies and playing the same video games as teenage boys twenty years their junior.