[yeeetz]

at least it makes dating easier for guys at schools like caltech now which is a non-trivial plus

[FredPret]

It's nice for the guys to have it easy for a couple of years, but it's bad for all of us if an entire generation of women find it almost impossible to date because they want to date men with degrees and those don't exist in large enough numbers.

[FormerBandmate]

They can just date down? A lot of the times those degrees don’t pay better anyway

[ghaff]

Maybe. I've gone out with women with advanced degrees and women without undergrad degrees. They've all been smart and I pretty much didn't care about their educational resume. Historically, that simply wasn't an issue in general.

[vsuperpower2021]

Men drop out of college; women most affected

[jeffwask]

Having attended a school in the 90's with a 7-1 male to female ratio, I concur. A strange culture and negative behaviors are reinforced on both sides in such an unbalanced environment.

[creer]

Caltech was / is not a school in the middle of nowhere. It's in a big city next to a metropolis. Caltech students who want to find people to date can find people to date.

[g15jv2dp]

Women don't go to university to enter your personal dating pool.

[jeffwask]

While I get your point but it's short sighted to not view college as a place where both men and women learn and grow as humans outside of formal study. Learning to navigate relationships, discover your sexuality, and generally learn to work with and collaborate with people of different backgrounds. In an environment where the population is radically unbalanced there is less opportunity especially for the people who need to learn about these things the most.

[wannacboatmovie]

They do exactly this if they intend to grow into a well-rounded, functioning human.

This attitude is how we end up with individuals at 40, alone, hoarding cats, and having no functional social skills.

Dating is necessary to develop skills to survive in the real world and for humanity to propagate.

[b112]

Actually, the parent didn't say their personal dating pool, did they? They spoke generically.

They also didn't say men would even ask anyone out, are you being sexist, and assuming men always ask, and women do not?

And unless 20 year olds have changed dramatically, everyone is looking for new dating pools.

Or are you suggesting women don't have a sex drive, and should be chaste?