Should women settle?

I read this very strange article in the Atlantic Monthly by Lori Gottlieb, it is about why women should settle for Mr Not Perfect as early as possible. Her argumentation is very interesting and I wanted to give the main points here.

1. All women feel panic when they hit 30 and are unmarried. She says that if they are not, either they are in denial or they are lying. If you ask any woman in her 40s, she is likely to say that what she wants is a family.
   
2. What makes a good romantic relationship is not necessarily what makes a good marriage, in other words according to her marriage is about whom you want to run a houseold with, your partner to run a nonprofit business.
   
3. It is like musical chairs, when do you take a seat, any seat, just so you are not left standing alone. She argues that the more you wait, the more the dating pool is dwindling and thus the few available men tend to require far more of a concession than those who were single few years ago.
   

I am an idealist, so to me this reasoning seems very odd, but I am sure many mature persons would argue that on the long run she is right. The question is even though you understand it with your bain, how can you ever accept something if it does not feel right? I guess that is the beautiful and dramatic thing in life, we need to be able to hope and understand it ourselves to accept it.