“I’m looking for a man who has goals and ambition, is intelligent, trustworthy, a provider, supportive, considerate, kind, assertive, masculine, honest, faithful, intentional, has a healthy self-esteem and a sense of humour, loves to go out, and likes fitness. These basic qualities are hard to find these days,” she said.

Me: Is that all? Any other "basic qualities" I'm required to have?

Also note that the article buries the lead. At the end, it finally gets to the woman who admits: "Being single is very expensive." She can thank her feminist sistas who came before her. You got this,gurl!

Not sure whether this should be flaired Inspin Tears or Single Women Tears. Moderators please reflair if needed. I cannot post this to the Reddit site so if someone could do so it would be appreciated.

Most women who read the guardian are not relationship material. They simply want more than they are worth and are like overpriced cars on a dealer's forecourt. The cars get less valuable every day but the dealer will not sell at a price that gets buyers, so they get less valuable next day.

Princess thinks she is worth a huge list of demands that start with equality ad end with a man doing all the male heavy lifting in the relationship. Princess wasted her best child bearing years getting qualified in some supposed education. Still she is better off alone than with a no good man. You go gurl!

Clearing these women out of the dating pool will only remove opportunities for male disappointment.

These women don't understand that plenty of these men exist, but don't exist for them. Just like there are plenty of 10/10 big titted blondes that I will probably never get with.

"There’s also the Peter Pan syndrome: a lot of men here don’t seem to want to grow up and take on the responsibilities of adulthood or a committed partnership,”

Don't want to "grow up"... for YOU. Why would I risk my financial situation and re-orient my life to a 48 year old woman who thinks the extremely high standards she's set for me are a "low bar" that in her eyes I am consistently failing to meet? It sounds exhausting. The time to get me to do that was when you were 20 years old and I was too, but instead you had "Riley Reid" syndrome and were sucking every dick in a 100 ft radius.

I get a lot of matches with these types of women in online dating (in their 30s) and what's also common is they are sexless, joyless people. They have been so used up by that age that there is nothing left to give, instead they go through the motions conducting job interviews for the position of boyfriend. If accepted you will be under a probationary period indefinitely and if you're lucky some starfish sex once every two weeks to keep you on the hook.

roastie cope fest lol

This article is a great reminder of the blatant double standard that exists in many spheres of society in regards to men and women, I encourage any of y'all to read it. The guardian literally choose the top losers of the female gender. Directly from the article: "I’m single by choice because dating nowadays is a waste of time,” said Valerie Gregorio, a 27-year-old from Maryland. “I’m not looking for anyone, I value my freedom and independence too much. I still live with my family because everything is too expensive...I’m ready to accept being single for the rest of my life.”

This is the equivalent of Time magazine interviewing a basement dwelling 27 year old dungeons and dragons expert in an article about how relationships are difficult in 21st century. The guardian found various losers, weirdos, and female equivalents of autistic men and made them believe it's absolutely not there fault they're single and forgotten. In the article, These females only attract men who they refer to as losers and NEVER got a stand-up guy yet it's absolutely NOT their fault. If a woman happens to be lurking and luckily reads this, here's the golden ticket to never end up like those females: don't date men who have more options than you. Simple. Don't lie to yourself, you know who those men are. Be real with yourself, you only have 1 life and a few hundred ovaries. Don't end up like some of these losers in the article.

We also need to popularize shaming female losers just like male losers. I do it all the time in real life. If I see a female not contributing to society or her family and friends, living parasitically, and just completely skill-less, I don't hesitate to call her a loser, basement dweller, bum, etc. just as I would with her male equivalent. This trend of allowing losers to have voices because they have vaginas must end