>>4604493Basically, they're priced out of the market.
Male attractiveness is skewed. The average male is in the 87th percentile, and the median male is unattractive. The modal male is even less attractive than the median male.
Women are programmed to perceive men this way because they had a 5% chance of death. They need to hold out for partners of higher reproductive fitness to compensate for the risk of death so their offspring have the same odds as themselves.
So, basically, an average woman is holding out for the average ABOVE average man, a little higher than one standard deviation, so 87th percentile according to this study.
So the +1 SD woman is holding out for a +2 SD man, and so forth.
Attractive women get underbid by average women, as they're holding out for an even more attractive man than themselves.
Also, they probably were more likely to get pregnant as a teenager and die, as teenage pregnancy has higher maternal mortality. Also, probably more likely to get killed by spurned suitors or jealous lovers.
Also, many of them withdraw socially because they get so much unwanted attention from creeps.
