That's a cool story, bro, but hypergamy has been steadily on the decline for the past 70 years. The more that women have opportunities to make their own wealth and status, the less they care about that of men - and looks have never been nearly as important to women as they are to men. The reason that so many women are no longer dating anyone is that the pool of men who treat them like partners and like human beings is so absurdly small. You can keep with the scapegoat scenario but it doesn't actually hold up to reality.
In previous generations, young women entered adulthood in a society that expected them to find a financially stable man who would support them through decades of marriage and motherhood. Over the 1950s and 1960s, that pattern gradually broke down, and today it is all but gone.
Women are tiring of their stereotypical role as full-time therapist for emotionally distant men. They want a partner who is emotionally open and empathetic, the opposite of the age-old masculine ideal.
“Today in America, women expect more from men,” Levant said, “and unfortunately, so many men don’t have more to give.”
