[FredPret]

It's nice for the guys to have it easy for a couple of years, but it's bad for all of us if an entire generation of women find it almost impossible to date because they want to date men with degrees and those don't exist in large enough numbers.

[FormerBandmate]

They can just date down? A lot of the times those degrees don’t pay better anyway

[HideousKojima]

At least according to surveys and other stats, women are far more reluctant to date down than men.

[ghaff]

Then they adjust or don't date.

[ghaff]

Maybe. I've gone out with women with advanced degrees and women without undergrad degrees. They've all been smart and I pretty much didn't care about their educational resume. Historically, that simply wasn't an issue in general.

[FredPret]

Not for you - I'm saying it's an issue for them: many (most? all?) university-educated women want to date their peers - men with degrees. This is a huge problem for them when the ratio of graduates are two women for each man.

[ghaff]

Fair enough. I'd just argue that "peers" is not solely determined by degrees. Of course, it's easy for me to say I don't care; I have too many of them. But I know a lot of people care a lot.

[vsuperpower2021]

Men drop out of college; women most affected