Evolution has been Updated for the Third Millennium

The Guardian has a piece on modern dating.

Young people are dating less. One interviewee suggested this: women want to marry upward, or at least at their own level. But as women become more professionally successful, their dating pool shrinks. The higher a woman reaches, the fewer men there are who are at or above her level. But because men are willing to marry down, she has much competition. By the time a professional woman is ready to get married, she is older, less available, and facing heavy competition in a shrinking dating pool.

Stupid and drunk women get pregnant; professionally competent women pay taxes to support them. What would Darwin have to say about this?

In the 18th and 19th century, the intelligent daughters of intelligent men were kept uneducated and were married off as teen-agers. That kept intelligence in the gene pool. Now we are about to be subsumed by an idiocracy that seemingly only the patriarchy could have saved us from.

I give up. This is not the right world for me.