You are conflating being average with bad behavior.
I don’t know where this high value nonsense is coming from but it’s wrong on lots of different levels.
But let’s clear some major misunderstandings that you guys keep overlooking.
First off, as I said I’ve indicated before, many women today don’t attach the same need and value to men and marriage as women did in previous generations. So already, even if he is a high value man, his value to women in today’s society isn’t as potent as it was in previous generations. That goes doubly for the average man today as well.
Why? Because in the past, decreased economic opportunities for women resulted in a social push for women to get married and taken care of. Moreover, stringent conservative moral values resulted in a culture of shame that all but pushed women into these relationships because you were shunned if as loose or strange if you didn’t conform to the housewife/mother role even if you did contribute financially. Also having babies illegitimately was a big no no as well.
So those powerful social mechanisms: lack of economic opportunity and protection if you don’t marry, shamed if you remain single, shame restricting children without marriage—all of these provided sufficient incentives for women to marry the average man whether they truly loved them or not. It also provided incentive for these women to STAY in these marriages even if you aren’t sexually satisfied, even if he is cheating, even if you doing all the housework, cooking, cleaning, taking care of the kids AND working small jobs to bring in money as well. You stayed because your small jobs could not support yourself and your children on your own. And even if they could, you didn’t want to be a social pariah or risk being unprotected.
Skip 75 years later.
Women are making their own money and participating at high rates in the job market. So that’s one issue out of the way. She might still have a biological desire to get a man’s resources in addition to her own, but now she knows, no matter what, if it goes to shyt she can still just chill on her own and be alright financially. Automatically that’s one less incentive for her to be with or stay with a guy if she doesn’t want to.
Next, is the easing of the social stigma attached to being single. Some of its still there but it’s completely different than it was in the past. Back in the day, people who lived by themselves past a certain age were considered insane, loose women, were ostracized, attacked. Now a days that’s very, very different. Plenty of people live alone or with roommates on some Golden Girls status. In fact, a large portion of older women who got divorced that were married in those eras actually prefer NOT to get married again.
Why do you think that is? Why wouldn’t a frail old woman that ya’ll claim is so unhappy being single, want to divorce after retirement or not want to get married again or even live with their older boyfriends just for companionship?
Whether you think an average woman can get a high value man or not is irrelevant. The major issue here is a lot of women at all ages have looked at the shyt a lot of men bring to the table, and they are opting out. And the only thing that they opting in for is a man that can do enough for her to offset the aggravation and shyt she’ll have to go through in dealing with him.
The real question we should be asking is what is so bad about these set ups for women that make them say “unless Idris comes through my door, I’m straight on 99.9% of the rest of men”?
I have the answers because I know what we as women go through in relationships. Just the idea a lot of men have that if they taking care of shyt, they should be able to cheat is absurd, especially now that women probably gon contribute just as much financially as the man is today.
Seriously, can you give me any reason why a woman would put up with the same shyt from men as women did in the past, when in today’s world they have opportunities to bypass dealing with it altogether? If a woman’s basic biological needs are to procreate and find provision and protection for her and her offspring, she can do that by getting an okay career, and raising her kid on her own. Without the heartache, the abuse, the cheating, the emotional work, the having yo fukk when you don’t want to, then not even getting off when you do, the humiliation and potential for the man to walk out ANYWAY.
What ya’ll keep calling delusion in women is actually reality outside of your ego. In today’s world a woman can live a good life even if she is single. Unless a man is offering her a better life, she’s saying her peace isn’t worth the risk.