Yes, this is sadly very true and is thoroughly confirmed by my own experiences since becoming single again over a year ago. I read a German research paper investigating why German men choose foreign women to marry and the author quoted the statistic that, at the age of 40, there are rougly 3 single guys competing for every 2 single females in Germany. From the statistics on sex ratios in the 30-40 age bracket I've deduced that it's roughly the same in the UK.Rayn wrote:"... the percentage of singles LESSEN as you go up the age category with the womens getting picked out for marriage/relationships one by one. Guess who gets picked up first? Yup, the desirable ones.Feldeinsamkeit wrote:It's the same shitty deal in the UK. As a 40-year old single male, the only women available in my social circles are knocking on around the 50-year mark and even they are no lookers and are more often than not Cluster B-personality disordered to boot. I've already tried "lowering my standards" to date larger ladies around my own age, but even they are all taken. I also suspect that there are many younger guys prepared to date older women since they aren't getting any attention from women around their own age.
It's like applying for a job at McDonald's flipping burgers armed with a Bachelor's degree in astrophysics only to be rejected on the grounds that you don't also have a Ph.D. in the subject.
The old single women aren't the pretty unplucked lillies this sort of advice tries to imply. They are the worse of the worse of the worse of the worse of the bunch. That is why they remain single despite waiting for so long. Its only logical.
Furthermore, not only do you have the sex ratio getting skewed ever more in favour of women as you ascend the age scale from 30, the quality of the women becomes progressively worse, especially in terms of their personality since, as Rayn rightly pointed out, it's logical that the only women who are going to be left over in an any competition where women are outnumbered by men are going to be not just the marginally less desirable ones, but the highly undesirable ones - and I'm talking full-blown personality disorders here: borderline, narcissistic and outright sociopathic. Yes, I have also encountered a very small number of relatively pleasant and well-adjusted women who are single, but they invariably are more than happy being single and/or are quite content waiting until the end of time for their mythical "Prince Charming".
Have any other HAers noticed this phenomenon?