Ultimately all of those reasons were pretty shallow, and I was able to move past them. This is a wicked problem when viewed from a societal scale. So much of one's view of the opposite sex can be driven by emotional hurt and personal resentment toward a specific one or a few individuals. With a similar dynamic for young men who have a handful of bad experiences with women. I don't believe it was addressed in this piece, but the general desire of women for men the same age or older is also relevant.
I've read elsewhere that the supply and demand dynamics on Tinder and other dating sites become so unbalanced for moderately successful men even nerdy types in their earlys that there are dozens of women trying to "catch" them.
This makes it even less likely that they settle down just when their options are increasing. I can see opting out of Tinder, etc. It's hard for me to imagine it becoming high status for most young men, except for those in serious relationship with a woman who is seen as a great "catch" by other men. How many men were supported by their wives while they got their advanced degrees?
That seems to be more common, or at least was in the not so distant past, don't know about now. In my opinion this happens when women are too numerous. Many are not considered as dating material, grow angry and distrustful of men because it can't possibly be them-accoording to their "sisters.
You now have a man hating society filled with feminists and men who agree with them. In the study by the U of British Columbia sociologist finding women marred to less educated men who earn more BTW, those guys who figured out how to get a research grant involving looking at lots of sexy selfies are clever lads.
