>>10976376It's caused by:
1.) An extended worldwide recession that slaughtered male post-undergrad job placement and starting salary that set them behind the 8-ball and has demonstrated to also set back lifetime earnings and career success. The "mancession" as it was referred to in 2008.
2.) Female hypergamy demanding a man both out-earn a woman AND have equal or greater academic success. The "where are all the good men gone?" Despite college not becoming worth the squeeze and women making up 60% of graduates for the past 15 years.
3.) Female social and economic mobility allowing them the ability to pursue the top 20% of males not limited by a local geographic area, and preferential hiring artificially pushing female socioeconomic value higher than an equally qualified male.
This is how you can have both young male incels AND 40 year old cat-moms and wine haunts with no nieces or nephews.
Women are unironically establishing the old patriarchal mating assortment of a young woman with an older established man without the old-time benefits of an actual married partner and children.