Really?

  Warning...rant to follow.   I should have known better.  I do know better but I did it anyway.  I went back on the online dating sites to see who is out there.  Bad, bad idea.  There seem to be a few interesting men scattered among the hundreds of thousands of profiles out there.  The question is how to get the vaguely attractive, articulate ones to respond to a woman who is also vaguely attractive and intelligent.  A good number of those men want someone far younger than they are.  I long for a profile that is creative, well written with proper spelling from a man who has realistic sense of self.  They appear to be few and far between.
   On the other hand, I daily encounter women who are witty, funny, creative, articulate with generous hearts.  Yet they can not find a suitable partner because they don't conform to a male ideal.  It doesn't make sense to me.   There is an increasing number of single people over fifty.  While at the beginning the online dating sites seemed to be a solution for connecting people, I am not sure it has lived up to the hype.  Of course there are successful connections made in that arena.  But not always, Wonderful amazing men and women are still looking for some companionship and romance and can't seem to find each other.   I wonder what needs to happen for them to connect.