Look here. Nobody said no to me, and even if they did, that doesn't make my point any less valid. There are plenty of women who have all of the qualities that are the reasons you listed for "not settling", and that's not a generalization, that is fact. It's also a fact that, especially nowadays, many Western women do have a very mercenary/otherwise shallow attitude towards men, regardless of what the man's lifestyle/personality is like. You also proved my other point in this; nowadays people will justify women committing murder (figuratively and literally), yet they would not if a man did the same thing. Cheated on him? He must have done something to deserve it. Falsely accuses him? He's guilty until proven innocent. She rapes him? He isn't the victim, and he has to pay child support to his rapist. Also not helping is how nowadays pretty much any form of masculinity is seen as "toxic" if men show it.