>> There’s also been a shift due to online and apps that give women an unlimited choice of men while giving the majority of men nearly no choice > How can that

>> There’s also been a shift due to online and apps that give women an unlimited choice of men while giving the majority of men nearly no choice > How can that be? Why would it be empowering for one gender but not the other? What would the underlying reason be to explain that kind of social phenomenon? Because there are large social differences between how the genders date. Given such differences, a change in how dating is done may favor one gender more than another. In practice, the most noticeable difference is that men are expected to message women (barring rare exceptions like Bumble). In current online dating, that means women receive a great many messages and can pick between them, while men must send a great many to have a chance at a response. At least that initial stage of dating has shifted in women's favor in recent years, but as you said, that's not the whole picture and despite all the messages women may have a hard time finding someone they like, depending on what they are looking for.