“Then it was determined that it was the age gap. Those bastions of our kedusha kept up the tradition of insisting that 19 is old enough for a girl to know what she wants in life, but a boy has to be 22.”
This is dumb. The boys should be 19 too. More younger boys dating would solve the shidduch crisis. The boy doesnt need to already be earning/working necessarily, maybe hes still in school but there will be a future earning potential. He can be married and in kollel, I don’t see the conflict there. Or if he has a job that doesn’t require a ton of learning prior to working, like a blue collar job no problem there.