“Women have a stronger buyers market than ever and no real need anymore for providers or even a husband. Services like Tinder have turned finding men into catalog shopping. Any woman who just wants some attention can put her picture on a dating service and receive messages from dozens or hundreds of men who think she is pretty enough to date. If she actually wants to date, she can just flick off the unattractive men and then only talk to the best looking ones to ascertain if she wants to go out with them or not.”
I don’t buy this. I suppose if the premise is that sex is the same thing as a relationship, then sure, women have an advantage because pretty much any woman willing to “put out” can find some man who is more than happy to have sex with her.
But if we are talking about an actual relationship, and more than just sexual encounters, I suspect that there are more lonely women than men. But that’s just my opinion. No objective data to support it.
There are far more ways to find someone and make romantic connections today than ever before. However, our society seems to be ever-increasingly superficial. So I DO believe it is more difficult to succeed in romantic relationships today in spite of more opportunities. It does not help that most of us have no chance to measure up to the standards of perfection in the media.
I don’t see romance and sex being so separable. An extra requirement, perhaps. I doubt you’ll find too many women interested in pursuing romantic relationships with men they wouldn’t choose for sexual relations, particularly women accustomed to having sexual encounters with men of their choosing.