'If the shortage of women is as bad as the guys lament, then it shouldn’t be surprising that a woman can date a man that’s more attractive than herself. Incidentally, he also went at it with a) completely heteronormative assumptions, and b) the basic idea in mind that dating, like the rest of life, is to to be hacked, modeled, or solved. And Tang, seeing some numbers, couldn't help himself. 'There’s a joke that I’ve heard passed around the circles of frustrated single men in San Francisco,' writes payments startup person Steven Tang in a Medium post he's sure to regret, which has the rather clinical title 'How San Francisco’s gender disparity affects the attractiveness pairings of couples.'ĭon't you want to stop him right there? Sadly, he concludes the joke.'They claim that this city is home to 49ers - girls that are 4’s but think they’re 9’s in terms of attractiveness.' That quip, you might recall, basically got one tech founder run out of San Francisco, but this town has no memory for that sort of thing.
