Generally, I don't like to debate people on the interwebs who don't use an actual profile photo and hide behind a fake name but your reply is so egregious I can't let it be.
"Which is why she will likely remain single." The problem is that women are just fine with this. The single over 40 women I know are immensely happy. I think this entire idea drives men bonkers.
"She won’t date down but the men she wants have 23 year olds to choose from." Again. You miss the entire point. The 23 year olds are desiring the 50-year-olds so much less.
"Which is why this kind of ‘girl power’ logic makes for lonely women. And I would know, the vast majority of my female friends are in the position of being good earners and they are consistently forlorn about men who don’t fancy them, either because those men want children and therefore won’t date an infertile woman, or because those men have so many options they wouldn’t bother with anything other than the most beautiful women." And you should know? YOU should know? You? You have just mansplained being a middle-aged woman to a middle-aged woman. Sir, I am the subject matter expert on being a middle-aged woman. Not you. Also, help your female friends be stronger women.
"Which is why I think your article, which largely echos the sentiments of the women I know, is bad for them. It’s also a particularly narcissistic American trait I have noticed, where many rate themselves way above their true abilities, both intellectually and physically. We do not need more grandiose egoists in the world, but more people with humility and a healthy sense of their talents and weaknesses." This is what men say when they want women to lower their standards so that the women will then consider dating men beneath them who will give them the bare minimum.
"This kind of article lends itself to what I have come to term “inrels”, namely women who are involuntarily relationshipless, mostly due to their own misguided sense of their romantic value." On, no no no no. Women are VOLUNTARILY relationshipless. It the fragile male ego that refuse to believe that a woman would rather be alone than date them.
