If you are a man with a degree or a good job that is capable of empathizing with others and not totally strange than you are in a buyers market. My grandpa was deaf in one ear and in his early twenties during WWII, best Years of his life until the soldiers came back.
Let's look at that, though - with a degree - there's been less and less of that lately. For whatever reason (and I've seen "autonomy" suggested a lot, as a consequence of rising tuition) the male fraction at colleges has dropped an easy ten percent. If you are male and have no degree, there are a lot of "laborer" positions open to you. If you are female and have no degree, the gender-normative world says you need to get married. Sure, there's retail etc but there's retail etc. for men. There's more incentive for women to at least invest in enough debt to get a leg up. or a good job - if you grabbed the bottom rung out of high school your opportunities for career advancement are slim. The job you got five years ago is the job you have now and likely the job you'll have five years from now. If you got a degree in dental hygiene you're in the same spot but you're also making $80k a year - a friend's daughter scored a slot in a dental hygienist program with an 80 percent rejection rate, zero men in the program. that is capable of empathizing with others - if you look online for dating advice you're going to find Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan and Andrew Tate, all of whom will tell you that if you man up and start treating women like shit they'll fall at your feet. You can be empathetic but to profess empathy requires a counter-cultural belief that women are humans. and not totally strange - If you're twenty two right now you (A) graduated during COVID (B) playing first-person shooters with 99% dudes (C) and watching pornography that heavily favors the humiliation and degradation of women (D) having experienced nowhere NEAR a reasonable amount of unmediated, spontaneous interaction with the opposite sex. I'm not saying it doesn't happen? I'm saying that over the past fifteen-twenty years the lake is bigger, the lily pads are fewer between and there's less time spent learning how to jump. And the statistics are now bearing out what was predicted ten years ago. Now here's the problem: the soldiers never left and they're not getting laid.