timppu: That kinda sounds like when I was in a (technology) university. 95% of the people in the campus were young men, so the few women that studied there really had the time of their lives, getting attention from lots of male students.
Then again it wasn't so bad because elsewhere in the city (and nearby cities) there certainly were lots of ladies. It was not unusual that the university students would arrange parties together with other universities and schools where most students were women (like nurses etc.). I guess in Seattle there is no such option.
There's a lot of similarities there, you see the same thing in colleges here that are skewed one way or the other. It's probably biologically based because you see the same sort of monstrous abuse of the opposite sex pretty much whenever there's a significant gap in available partners.
It doesn't even take that much of a skew either. Just a few percentage points can do it. And ultimately, the men never win. It might make it easier to get a girlfriend or potentially wife, but the moment you're out of that environment, the calculations change and you can find yourself dumped or divorced for no particular reason.
It mostly comes down to perceived value on the sexual market place and it's worse when the women are in demand because they'll hold out too long and basically screw everybody over. Most days I get a lot of women that are just too old for me trying to get my attention. Had I met them 10 years ago, I might have chosen them. But now they're really too old which puts a massive amount of pressure on me and if I were OK with a partnership without children I wouldn't be putting up with women at all. It's just not worth it.
And as I indicated in my first post, if people are being this picky, it means that things are probably either relatively neutral or outright stacked in favor of whatever sex is being picky as in many places you just don't get to throw away perfectly good matches just because they aren't perfect and still have anybody left. Just tossing out matches with women that have kids and are under 35 alone leaves very few possibilities around here.