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 It's an infamous data presentation by okcupid, and pretty much the only one in existence that I've seen for the modern day, showcasing women's hypergamy and unrealistically high standards in graph form. Men's ratings for women follows almost a perfect bell curve, an even normal distribution, while the women claim that literally 80% of men are below average. Their perception of reality is absolutely distorted and with all the enabling and backpatting and constant validation in today's gynocentric social environment and social media, this has only exacerbated it to unbelievably insane proportions.

You have a 32 year old women who rates a 5, 6 on a good day, and she thinks she's a hard 8.5 who deserves a 9 at minimum. I simply cannot respect anyone who will not comes to terms with the reality of how something is, and that applies to this

— From Reddit. https://image.nostr.build/17e0f83b942492fc80f767d91404445084f47a1cfea0fd5ead9498f54c14419f.png