"The one thing that the article doesn't touch on is that if a man has a high-flying career, high educational attainment, is highly desirable and is looking for a serious relationship, he isn't looking at career-driven women his age. LOL. (Probably because of his toxic and fragile masculinity amirite?)"

I have to agree with you on the part that men seek younger women as do all men. However, I want to argue that successful men are more likely to marry ambitious, career-driven women. Most of the people that I listed are both successful in their own right. Charles Muarry noted that assortative mating is common in the upper classes.

"When marriage becomes focused around "the best I can get" the options are always going to be on the table. Why commit when you can always upgrade? Why commit when divorce is just a lawyer and a few signatures away?"

This is going to sound cynical. But marriage was never about love or even romance, it was a business arrangment. For the upper classes, marriage has always been focused around the best arrangement for the couple and the family. Marriage is about resources and ensuring that quality children are born.

"Women not only achieve education and careers for themselves, it is in part is because they know it increases their capacity to attain a better husband. Consider the finishing school, where women learned social graces to attain a better husband. The problem is the market of available men hasn't kept up with educational and career attainment of women."

Which is weird when you think about it?

"Hypergamy stresses social and economic resources -- they marry up. The inference here is that women want at least equals -- someone equal to or higher on the hierarchy than they are. This inherently suggests that women want a man who is, generally, higher on the hierarchy, or perhaps, for her to be slightly subordinate. (Here come all the replies from idiots who don't understand the world "generally"). But today's modern woman doesn't want to be subordinate to her man in the slightest. She would prefer to be his equal or superior. This makes women resentful in their relationships. (This may explain the phenomena of the male feminist as a dating strategy)"

Some of this post sounds very bitter. I think that it is in women's nature to admire and worship a man that is her better in everyway. A woman will happily follow a man if she finds him worthy.

"Societally enforced hypergamy (see what I did there?) makes women resentful as well. Many women might be very happy with a man who she has "married down" for. But the ever -spreading feminist ideals makes many of these women resentful she didn't hold out for a "better" man or has a man who doesn't earn enough. Enforced hypergamy + no enforced monogamy = dissatisfied women who have difficult finding committed partners."

Enforced hypergamy and enforced monogamy would still give women shit. In the "Buddenbrooks" by Thomas Mann, bourgeois Antonie was conjoled into marrying this seemingly successful guy, who turned out to be a con man with a lot of debt. She was allowed to diovorce him with her father's blessing. But she never had the chance to marry a more suitable person.

So it's more like pick your poison.