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The Dating Struggles of Noncollege Men

Well-educated women are pessimistic about dating, but they are more successful than most

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Daniel Cox
Dec 11, 2025
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I write a lot about dating. So do lots of other people. Recently, a series of articles have been published that have hit on a not entirely novel thesis: dating men is a uniquely terrible experience for many women. These articles introduced new terms, “heterofatalism” or “heteropessimism,” to capture the unenviable experience of being a woman attracted t…

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