> This is all insane. So much so that I'm not sure it is serious.

The parents post is essentially arguing that women tend to find a different set of characteristics attractive than men do.

In particular monetary success in a partner matters more to women.

Can you post a serious counter-argument?

If you have research showing that women date down the income quartiles more often than men you could really add to the discussion.

Resorting to saying the parent has issues with women is not an acceptable level of discourse for HN.

I've spent much of my life examining this, and I happen to believe this is the world we live in. Are you suggesting that women are not in any way attracted to success?

>if I want to attract a woman I need to be successful

fundamentally false

Have you seen any homeless men or janitors with high value women lately?

Did you know that women find 80% of men to be unattractive?

https://theblog.okcupid.com/your-looks-and-your-inbox-8715c0...

From the article: "As you can see from the gray line, women rate an incredible 80% of guys as worse-looking than medium. Very harsh."

I suspect your desire to rank humans--high value? seriously?--affects your dating life more than your income.

Huh? The article also states that women don't care much about looks. Much less than men.

Isn't that his point? That you need money, success, etc, not looks.

While I find such a view fairly gross, this is not very charitable. What is particularly insane about it? Troublesome, even wrong, doesn't make something insane. I've seen such a view stated many times. I hope we can do better than moralize, it just drives people with views like this further to the fringe.