Everyone lied to us about how if we just did everything perfectly, a man would want to marry us at a suitable age and we could have children in our late 20s or early 30s.
Instead, men were indecisive sluts, and nobody was lining up to pay our bills so we could have children earlier. We had to get jobs and go to school, because women's work, even low paid, requires a degree, unlike manly blue collar jobs.
Having a degree and a job was then held against us, for intimidating the men, giving them yet more excuses to wait for the exact perfect woman who was neither a gold digger nor too independent, neither domineering nor needy, neither too forward nor too prudish, and both low maintenance and effortlessly thin and beautiful.