Endless Supply of Younger Women

August 29th, 2003

I don't put a lot of faith in Craigslist postings, since many (all?) of them are anonymous. This one, however, has echoes of Danielle Crittenden: “At 24, 25, 26, a lot of boy's have a hard time finding a girl, because many of THEIR peers are dating older, more established men. I've just been noticing that payback is a bitch. I'm getting a bit older, and now there's the aforementioned role reversal. I'm not really into 40-year-old men.” I wrote about this in my review of Danielle Crittenden's book, What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman: “[according to Crittenden, women currently in their early twenties] will worry that they sent men the wrong message: that sex was meaningless to them when they were young. While there will be an endless supply of young women as men get older, there won't be an endless supply of older men when the female gets older who will find them attractive.”