Please don’t quote me out of context. The full quote is: So then we should not be surprised at all that it’s so common for women to have an unrealistic picture

Please don’t quote me out of context. The full quote is: So then we should not be surprised at all that it’s so common for women to have an unrealistic picture of their prospects. I was talking about the mechanisms for why women would have an unrealistic picture of their prospects. Much has been written about the unrealistic expectations of men which have been driven by mass media. It’s only fair to talk about the other side of the issue which has been largely ignored, by comparison. But it’s not only the issue of expectations for dating. Young girls especially have been taught to have unrealistic expectations for their own appearance which has been driven by a ruthless set of social media algorithms that foster unhealthy comparisons (with celebrity influencers) across the entire internet. Anyway, if you want to see what should be more realistic expectations, look at pictures of families from a hundred years ago or more. What will you see? Plain and ordinary people living simple lives. Nowadays people are taught to look at such lifestyles with revulsion. Instead, they live their lonely consumerist lifestyles in their tiny apartments. You asked who all these lonely women are? They’re the friends of that guy’s wife from earlier in the thread. There are countless more women in the same situation.