There seems to be a lot of nitpicking on this forum over verbiage. I feel like the spirit of his comment was pretty obvious to me. He was not suggesting that he wants to find a woman to "give permission" to join him on his journey, he's just looking for a match who is on the same path and shares his goals. Honestly, any woman who would blast me over using natural verbiage is not the right match for me, and that's completely okay. To me, that is finding flaws over minor details, and if you do it over one thing, you might do it over other minor things too. We all have our different opinion over what is 'minor'.
I feel like if one is too inflexible regarding your potential match's finances (or many non-financial traits), you risk that your eventual early retirement might be a solo one. As long as you're okay with that, then that's fine, remain as picky as possible. If not, I'd suggest being more open-minded. If I was in the financial spot where it was irrelevant how much my match made/already had, then I would maybe focus on the other traits I'm looking for, like kindness, sense of humor, shared hobbies.
I don't think it's wise to automatically disqualify someone over numbers. If my 'perfect match' has a bunch of student loan debt because she incurred it for a high paying career, that's no big deal. Indeed, one of the women I have dated in the past was in medical school. She not only had student loans ,but also credit card debt. I don't know the specific numbers, but I know she works in her down time for extra cash to support her struggling parents. I know that she had barely enough free time to see each other more than every now and then. I could never fault this woman over her financial decisions, indeed she is one of the kindest most down-to-earth people you will ever meet. She would no doubt out-earn me and also be debt-free eventually, but for me to wait until she has her financial shit together before showing interest in her, or to rule her out because of her predicament would seem a bit shallow.
Or maybe on the flip side, I could have a match who is also debt free like me, but is content making a smaller income doing something she loves that is far less time intensive than a traditional career, which means she might have more time for shared hobbies etc. I'd have to see some pretty bad numbers and/or behavioral habits to disqualify someone over numbers alone. The reality is that we usually disqualify people well before we ever see their numbers, so I'm not sure that it makes sense to blatantly state that we're looking for a specific number unless we're content to hold out for the unicorn and are happy alone.
TL;DR - Judging people over income or debt without knowing the context seems to be needlessly picky from my foxhole.