William Costello

So women have a double-edged sword because highly educated women are competing with highly educated women

and lower educated women for the same increasingly small pool of men that they're deeming eligible.

And, you know, you see articles every week about this, talking about how women are beginning to freeze their eggs at rapid rates in response to this lack of eligible men out there.

Yes.

Yeah, it is just literally narrowing your pool that you can choose from and broadening the pool.

Yes, absolutely.

But yeah, when I think about it like that, I wonder what advice would I give to a sister of mine if I had one?

I don't have a sister.

Right.

What I advise her, oh, just simply lower your standards.

Marry a man less educated than yourself, even though you're not really sure that's what you want.

I don't know if I could bring myself to give that advice.

And there is some evidence that women are beginning to do this.

And I think that's somewhat inevitable.

So the phenomenon or the mating strategy that I described there of women tending to mate with higher status partners is called hypergamy.

And you probably heard a lot about that on Internet discourse all around the place.

But it's a very real phenomenon.

And there is some evidence that hypergamy is in decline.

Women are beginning to marry men less educated than themselves.

I can't remember the exact figures off my head, but a little in decline.