Top 80% of women compete for the top 20% of men on dating apps. And then, there is a funnel where unpartnered women race to find a partner in their 30s for those who race to have kids before fertility rates decline.

No one likes online dating, but everyone still defaults to it because third spaces where pairings traditionally occurred are evaporating.

https://web.archive.org/web/20091121080804/http://blog.okcup...

https://medium.com/@worstonlinedater/tinder-experiments-ii-g...

https://www.profgalloway.com/a-fewer-good-men/

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/03/marry-h...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6692099-marry-him

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6731751/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place