Women rate men harsher than women rate men, but their actual messaging habits are much more evenly distributed than men's.
If you're only factoring for looks, sure, they distribute their messages more evenly with the exception of shirtless guys who have 6 pack abs.
But who do they distribute those messages to?
Oh yeah, the 2nd blog answers that: Tall men, men who earn a lot of money, and tall men who earn a lot of money.
It would be really nice if men could like, be more than an income figure to a woman, y'know.
Like. IDK if women realize this, but men are human beings. And we have a lot more to offer than being tall enough for her to wear heels and having a lot of digits in our bank account.
Which is fine, but if you're going to make the case that women's standards here are ridiculous and unmanageable this doesn't really support it.
Your case only holds up if you only look at appearance. Which is why you only wanted to focus on that. I know. :(
Not evenly distributed of course, but that post literally, explicitly says that appearance matters far more in dating if you're a woman than a man.
Oh god, well no shit.
That post doesn't prove much about height other than taller dudes self-report slightly more sex and both men and women lie about their height a lot.
Did you miss the part about messages by height?
Fun fact: about 14% of the men in the US are 6' or taller.
Income I don't really need to see anything about, I know that's rough.
Fun fact: Less than 10% of men earn more than 100k.
Men's average income is also declining compared to women's. (I might be resentful in this whole thing, but who I really feel bad for are women in the next couple of decades.)
Now if only 14% of men are 6'+ and if only 10% of men earn more than 100k, and those are the guys getting the lions share of messages, and the rest are kinda going after the scraps... well, you could argue women have it just as bad as men, and I am so, so sorry for those poor, poor ladies who didn't get picked by Mr. Perfect $150,000. :( My heart bleeds. I'm sorry there just aren't enough "good men" out there anymore.
And this is only empirical, measurable things mind you. We haven't even delved into the quagmire that is interpersonal interaction - thankfully, because the only thing empirical about that is the fact that men worry more about how to act then women do.
