one poster made such a solid comment -with men putting women on a pedestal - it creates this strange power imbalance and gives many times the women an upper hand in the game of dating/courting
I'd argue that social media is what has given women the upper hand. Before, women were limited to dating the guys who lived, worked, or went to school near them.
Now, any halfway decent looking woman has a never ending stream of dudes hitting her up. Fours and fives are being treated like eights. Low status men are all going to die alone.