Are men really poor dating prospects that women and male simps make them out to be?

[Anonymous]

Data show that more men these days actively work out and take care of themselves than men in the past; increased by 20%. In terms of purchasing power, it shown that average wages has steadily been increasing by 2-3% per year. When it comes to overall salary, men maximum potential beat women by 30k at age 48.

Consistent with conventional norms, most men (84 percent) and women (58 percent) reported that men pay for most expenses, even after dating for a while. Over half (57 percent) of women claim they offer to help pay, but many women (39 percent) confessed they hope men would reject their offers to pay, and 44 percent of women were bothered when men expected women to help pay. Nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of men believed that women should contribute to dating expenses, and many feel strongly about that: Nearly half of men (44 percent) said they would stop dating a woman who never pays.

So are modern men still these train wrecks that male simps and women claim them to be?

Yes

No

[inhua]

no and a lot of male simps and women who claim modern men to be trainwrecks are worse trainwrecks themselves. I'd argue there's more high quality men out there than high quality women. men's standards for women have dropped significantly to the point where showing your ass cheeks on Instagram constitutes as a "high quality woman".

on the flip side men are being held to unrealistic social, financial and beauty standards. if those standards were simply have great internal qualities like kindness, respect, integrity this can be easily achieved but nah, some of the most common questions are how tall are you? how much money do you make? etc not questions like what do you enjoy? what is your family life like?

of course, there's no shortage of pseudo-alphas whether man or woman trying to tell to you to "man up" and gaslight you into believing it's your fault for this, that and the third.

affirmative action exists? you have male privilege so stop complaining.

people are bullying you for your height or your race? stop being a crybaby.

getting paid 5 figures or less in a job that you love? not good enough mate.

[Anonymous]

No sir! I'm for equality as much as the next guy. But this is one of the unintended consequences of feminism. Women have a notoriously skewed view of reality. Women's increased options should mean they have the options to make better choices. But since Women have NEVER as a whole been very good at choosing men they still choose the the wrong ones. The only problem is thier choices are no longer done as practically as they used to be. Because once upon a time it was about survival. Women don't need a man directly in her life for survival. A woman can fend for herself in the modern world. So Women choose men that provide her the best fantasy. This is also why pickup artists thrive today. And why so many women end up unhappy. There are more factors to it. But when you give a woman the decision to choose a partner based on her feelings she's almost always choose poorly.

[jennifer_bloom]

Yeah, I notice the guys I knew as kids were chubby or very weak and in their late 30s, they all look custom fit like models, I think they want girls or wives.

[Guy13]

Who wastes time worrying about this garbage. Get out there and live...

[LazerBean]

Whether they are or not isn't really relevant. A high quality person of either gender doesn't have trouble attracting high quality people of the opposite gender, thus only low quality people complain about such things. If you're having trouble finding a decent person, it's time to figure out what you are doing to make yourself low quality.

[Anonymous]

The amount of men who do those high-earning salaries are in the minority. Most men are not “good-enough.”

[anon1903]

Now all we gotta do is improve behavior