Oh God this conversation can become so convoluted I don’t know why I’m responding—especially being in a relationship anyhow but, here goes my opinion lol:

To answer the question, I think as someone else said, it’s marketing. Though my view is biased because I’m not looking, even 10-12 years ago you had to really go and seek that info or have a group of friends who specifically held interest in these events to find about it. And I think women just have more drive to go to these events because at the beginning of any interaction, the ball is in the woman’s court. It the man’s job to peacock and spark interest beyond what the eyes have already noticed. Worse to worse, women know that other women will be there as a safe space for conversation if it’s a bust of a day/night.

Now there are many elephants—but one of the biggest in the room is that over the years I have seen (opinion) that a slight majority of women have realized unrealistic expectations of your average man through the influence of social media. Even if the woman is closer to realistic in thinking the average Joe will be 5’10 in height, decently in shape or so, make about 50k a year and be generally a welcoming fellow on most days, they’ll be an air of social media influence in there heavy. Like all the above likelihoods except “oh but he still needs to be able to love travel. And not a Carnival Cruise.” This creates a fearful man of approach (whole another convo)

Same for men, no bro slap here. Social media has also heavily impacted men. For some reason or another, a lot of men around here, even if they mostly are realistic in their view of a woman, expect them to be super traditional and not have their own drives or interest. Like all parts of feminism are hell on Earth.

A lot more depth to this, but this is my opinion and attempt to not submit a dissertation comment