A man can’t be too impressed by a woman’s status, because it usually means that she is just further out of his reach. A woman can be impressed by a man’s status, because she has the chance to capture and secure it. For a man high staus only makes a woman less available, because she won’t be likely to consider anyone with less status than she has, and will only be looking up.

   Men don’t put much stock in a woman’s status. They care about who she is, in a more immediate sense. First, that she’s a woman, period. That’s an innately valuable trait, compared to men, whose value is either contingent or competitive. Second, how available and interested is she? Is she willing to give you the time of day, or at least not reject or ignore your advances outright? Because that’s worth a heck of a lot too. That’s already enough to make most women worthy and valuable prospects to most men. An innately valuable woman who doesn’t immediately reject you, who doesn’t think you’re scum or some sort wild beast? That’s pretty great. 

   Add on top of that beauty and charm and the multi-dimensional fertility of femininity, which most women possess more than enough of for most men, and you’ve got a treasure worth seeking. You can see why men swipe right three times as often as women. Now, if you add to all that some compatibility and mutual similarities (if you can afford to be picky about such things rather than having to live with and adapt to them), you’ve struck gold. At that point you’re just gilding the lily. Most men would have already been convinced of the intrinsic desireability of most women long before they got that detailed and picky. The question for men isn’t whether they like a woman, it’s how high-value of a woman can they get to like them.