Fred Reed has an essay on why not to get married, and offers the following observations and advice:
Were I to offer thoughts on marriage to young American men today, in these the declining years of a once-great civilization, my advice would be as follows: Don't do it. Or, if you do, do it in another country. In America marriage is a grievous error.And why so? Because of The Chip. The Attitude. The bandsaw whine of anger, anger, anger that makes American women an international horror. It's there. It's real.
You, a young man, may not recognize the Chip if you have never seen normal, warm, happy women. If you are twenty-something and haven't been out of the US, you haven't seen them. They exist by the billion--in Latin America, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaya, China and, last I looked, France and Holland. And of course not every woman in America carries the Chip. None of them think they do. Yet it is the default, the usual, what comes out of the box. ...
Now, you might well wonder, why are American women carrying the Chip? Practically, it doesn't matter: They do carry it, and will continue. Still, it is partly because from birth they are fed the notion that they have been oppressed, battered, cheated, deprived, harassed, used as sex objects, not used as sex objects, on and on. Being rational, you are perhaps inclined to point out that never has a female population been less any of these things, but don't bother. It will have no effect. The Chip is an emotional artifact to which they respond emotionally. ...
Spend a year overseas, however you have to do it. For smart, classy, just plain glorious women who often speak English, try Singapore. Argentina is splendid. Many places are. You would be amazed. See what's out there before you marry a gringa with her Inner Susan, who will one day burst from her chest like one of those beaked space-aliens in the movies, dripping venom. They're death.
Geez, who left this guy at the altar?
This reminds me of the women who go on about how "all men are pigs"... I notice that most of these women have a real knack for picking losers. Wow, just like that Susan Reimer chick.
I've heard the bitching from both sides, and it never makes the complainer look good. I've known people who keep ending up with the same type of crappy dates because they're always looking in the same crappy places. You know, perhaps if one were religious, and looked for dates at one's church, one might be better off than looking in bars. My Ma met my stepfather at a ballroom dancing club in her middle age... and he's 7 years younger than her, to boot (and no, my mother didn't take my dad for all he was worth... because he had died. So here's a decent American woman who's made two men happy.)
People who go on about "no good men" or "no good women" either are looking in the wrong places, or have little to offer such people.
Trying to "classify" all american women is just as bad as trying to "classify" all foreign women. You do a dis-service to both and show your ignorance.