[Jim Noble]

Several young women tell me they at first liked the trend toward marrying late, but they never thought it would mean never marrying at all.

Why didn't they?

[Clemenza]

NOBODY is pickier than women in NYC, which is why so many grow into being bitter old harridans once out of their prime.

Its important to have standards, but it is just as important to be realistic.

[Eye of Unk]

I’m 51, I live in rural Alaska, I have a wife with a terminal disease and sometime god forbid I will be a single parent again. I am not impressed with the stuck up woman nowadays either, luckily I marriage the most un-selfish person ever, she is so far removed from what American woman try to be I sometimes wonder why, anyhow if and when it happens her passing on I think I will take a trip around the world, maybe an Australian girl.

[timm22]

What a depressing read. I can only imagine marrying a woman and then finding out she had been inspired by this article.

"Gee honey, it really feels great knowing that I'm your backup plan. Glad I can be around to supplement your income and help with the chores, and don't worry about trying to look nice or anything. I'll always be your #2, baby."

I found these parts especially interesting:

He's a young man in his 20s, refusing to grow up, with access to ATMs for instant money to spend on himself.

(What's so bad about spending the money you earn on yourself?)

... He's uncultured, uncouth and unkempt, preferring beer to fine wine, skateboards to sports cars and teenage toys to higher status symbols of maturity.

Beer is inferior to fine wine? Maybe to an elitist snob. As far as skateboards, sports cars, and status symbols...what difference does it make? Personally, I think the acquisition of any "status symbols" shows a vacuous personality. A real man finds his worth in his accomplishments, his self-sufficiency, his commitment to principles...not through objects. Not even through expensive, "mature", sexy objects.

[Libertarian444]

The bottom line in this whole is discussion is that as - not only in dating - but in life in general, most people get what they deserve.

Women who adhere to a rigid demand for the Top 5% and hold a laundry list of "deal-breakers" while ignoring a guy who might be a wonderful person but have a few "imperfections" deserve to be alone. And, one day, they will suddenly come to the realization that there are no (gasp!) "perfect men." Too late.

Same goes for the guys. The "why rent the cow" crowd will one day wake up and find themselves in their 40's, balding, paunchy, and undesireable to most American women. But at least they will have their "war stories" of all their drunken nights with the boys and their convertibles and big-screen tv's to keep themselves warm at night. Too late.

[BurbankKarl]

Those tattoos above the butt dont help out either, ladies.

[ConservativeMind]

This is a great article.

The women this person speaks of are looking for someone whom they consider to be appreciably more of “everything” the women already believe themselves to be, thinking that they deserve some romantic vision of an ideal man.

In the meantime, they’ve squandered themselves by sleeping around with men they couldn’t keep, for some reason.

These women are what I was having to choose among, until I met the woman for me—in another country.

We are now happily married. She’s a fine person— intelligent, attractive, decent, and kind. She never slept around (nor did I).

The women of the article are so into themselves, that they can’t see their actual worth to a decent man has essentially shot down to near zero.

But, that is life when you pattern yourself after the “Sex and the City” lifestyle.

[ßuddaßudd]

Sorry Ladies, I’m already taken.