Sorry OP but I think this post is nothing other than kicking someone when they're down. You put the link to the story, so I can only assume you read:
That the woman was suffering from depression at the time of the interview.
That she was going through a divorce and feeling low.
That after opening up, she received nasty bullying online. That is disgusting and indicative of current society.
Here's what happened to me: I lost someone very close to me last year. Coincidentally, I am also going through the beginning stages of menopause. Those two events greatly affected me. A huge tremendous vacuum of loneliness washed over me and I, who have been celibate and content for years, suddenly had this overwhelming desire to be loved by someone. A man. Ok fine. But the problem was virtually any man. It was so bad I found myself considering propositions from men with zero prospects, not remotely to my standards (one had teeth missing and clearly unwashed clothes I found myself to my horror actually considering giving him my number). I just wanted comfort. Safety. Assurance. Affection. I was a walking emotional sieve.
I started feeling really alarmed after a while and actually made an appointment to see my GP to discuss things as I could see I wasn't emotionally stable somehow, but I couldn't see how or why it was happening.
Fortunately I spoke to a relative and she told me it was not unusual, it happens to many women during the change and it was exacerbated by losing someone very close to me. Once I got it, I spoke to my GP and he said the same thing - impulse control and reasoning ability can be more difficult during grief along with hormone changes.
That was all I needed to understand and I'm now almost back to my original balance, but I did suddenly have a thought for and far more compassion for, all those women who get scammed abroad by marrying totally unsuitable younger men. I see it now. I see how it could happen. There's not much conversation about women who are lonely and vulnerable. Women who have lost marriages, or who are at the end of their lives on the sense that they haven't got much time left, but have no one to share it with and then are targeted and exploited by men for nefarious purposes. I really feel had I been targeted during this time period, I myself could have fallen for a scammer, because I would have wanted it to be true and just wanted to fill the void. This woman was going through emotional upheaval possibly depression and not quite able to differentiate between reality and was targeted by scammers whilst vulnerable.
I find all the backlash referred to in the article to be misogynistic. And women have to deal with that too which is also further isolating. Poor woman.