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• guardian.co.uk
From the page: "And this has an obvious meaning for young people. Among young men, there tends to be a shortage of women, because a huge proportion of the women are attracted to older guys with better resources - cars, say, or money. Conversely, among young women, there tends to be a glut of male suitors. And when one of those young women chooses an older man, she is not just leaving a young man on the shelf, she is depleting the pool of mates available to her older sisters.
The reason that the man shortage has become the perceived reality is that women in their late 30s write books and newspaper columns, whereas men in their early 20s tend not to. They just sit around talking to their mates about football and cars. And then, when they get to their late 30s, they sleep with lots of younger women, and sit around talking to their mates about football and cars. And somewhere, deep in these male brains, will be the notion that getting fatter and balder seems to make you more attractive to women. Funny, that.
So, if there's a woman shortage, followed by a man shortage, why don't they balance each other out? You'd think they would, wouldn't you, if only to demonstrate some sort of divine justice. But they don't. Women, roughly speaking, have it easier in their 20s, and men in their 30s. But in the last couple of decades, the mating game has been pushed into older territory, which, of course, favours men. Why has this happened? "
