- Online dating has expanded the potential candidates so you’re competing with literally everyone in your area and even tourists. This leads to people (particularly hetero women) being pickier as they try and filter through what is now likely hundreds of potential partners
- The above also leads to the “grass is greener” mentality; rather than try to give a chance to someone who isn’t 100% compatible with you or to make things work when the going gets tough, it’s easier to just think that there’s someone out there “perfectly compatible” for you and that “you’ll just know and it won’t be an effort at all”
- Online dating has also opened up the pool to creeps and people with issues that historically might have been ostracized or at least not people who frequented the average dating pool. As a result, women are more exposed to these types of toxic, violent, creepy men and are more wary of men in general.
- Women are less dependent on men financially (relative to previous decades) so now they’re choosing their partners based on different criteria or just choosing to stay single until their criteria are met.
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