Posted on 09/19/2015 7:32:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It’s a complaint at least as old as “Sex and the City”: Where are all the good, dateable men? Why are there so many amazing women and so few acceptable mates for them? For a long time, the conclusions drawn were that women were doing something wrong. Too aggressive, not aggressive enough, not putting themselves out there, putting themselves out there a little too often.
A new book “Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game” by Jon Birger sets out to show that women aren’t doing anything wrong: There just aren’t enough Mr. Rights to go around.
Birger explains that this is the experience nationally, not just in oft-mentioned dating wastelands like New York City. With more women going to college than ever before, there are only so many baccalaureate bachelors for them to meet and marry.
That seems reasonable at first glance. Hey, if a woman is looking for someone with her level of education, and this is a deal-breaker for her, then sure, there’s a serious shortage of suitable men.
Birger points out that a woman who was 34 in 2007 began college in 1991 when women outnumbered men on college campuses by 10 percent. He notes that “in 2012, 34 percent more women than men graduated 4-year colleges.”
The numbers are indeed daunting. But they obscure a question all of these unmarried college-graduate women should be asking themselves: Why does a degree matter so much, anyway?
In his book “The Higher Education Bubble,” Glenn Reynolds quotes statistics showing that the cost of college has increased 439 percent since 1982. Reynolds’ book discusses the crippling debt many college graduates carry and how many of their degrees make the debt nearly impossible to ever erase.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
This. +10
The war on men has created a huge casualty list. I meet young men frequently, who seem like women in men’s bodies. They are attending college but they don’t act or look manlike. Despite whatever nature gave them, it is deemphasized for a more metrosexual look. (I mostly see at Gold’s, which is walking distance from FSU.) This isn’t as true of black men, at least not at the gym.
These gals went to college, but it doesn't make them wife material.
Someone has been properly "trained" by the feminazis. He should get some good lovin' on occasional weekends for this one.
(Not so good on the Logic, though... when one starts out with a conclusion and works from there, one is not following Logic, Reason, or the Scientific Method.)
The problem isn’t that women have degrees and men don’t, it’s that many women become feminist trash while getting the degree.If women would put half the effort into learning to be a wife that they put into learning to have a career, they could land a decent husband. The fact that they put career first says that their husband will be down on their priority list as well.
Now that sounds pretty cool. Wish I were 18 again (sigh).
Because its the guy that has to be the right “material”?
Whatever, ladies. We don’t have a shelf life for attractiveness, so keep on being picky like you are the prize.
There are always younger versions of what you wont be in 10 years.
Men do not need collage to support a comfortable life with plenty of travel, hobbies and a good dog.
The vast majority of ‘feminist leaning females’ are not worth the bother of working yourself to death.
Plenty of women to date, until something better comes along...
Single.
Happy.
Chattel free!
That’s a keeper
Women today want to do two things, texting and spending money. All other things come afterwards. I got three very eligible sons that all make very good livings and they all three say the same.
Perhaps because they're not really amazing after all?
Looking at women these days, I'm glad I've been married for 29 years to the same woman. If I weren't married I'd have given up on the female of our species long ago.
The "entitlement" mentality among today's women is really their undoing.
I regularly hear female speech patterns from so called males.
Sounds great but I’m probably too old and out of shape.
Too many gays, not enough guys?
P.S. One person's 'amazing' is another person's materialistic b!t%hy feminist reproduced by their college institution of choice. Either that or hyper-sexualized and sexually active pass around. And you wonder why no real man wants to get near you...)
I almost married one of those holier-than-thou college educated female dogs. She started pulling the ‘college card’ on me ever so increasingly. She was up to her eyeballs in debt. Always had to follow the crowd with the latest and greatest crap.
New woman is very intelligent, has no debt, and despises pop culture. I am very much in like.
In my experience, college-educated women are far more likely that college-educated men to buy into every destructive social trend to come out of academia in the last 50 years. Women are far more likely than men, for example, to buy into the kind of politically correct "social crusading" nonsense that has permeated our culture in recent years. I don't know any real men who would put up for more than ten minutes with the kind of idiocy that passes for political and social discourse these days.
>>That said, if I am widowed, my next wife will be an illiterate 18 year old Peasant girl. I will refuse to allow her to learn English, and will only lavish her with praise if she keeps the house clean and cooks well. If this turns off some of you single Freeper women, good.<<
I re-entered the dating world post 40. I work a solitary self employed job. I thought online dating would be a great way to meet women. I did some research after being disappointed and here is what I learned.
1) Middle aged women haven’t come to terms that they have fading looks and are not as desirable as they used to be.
2) These women have very high standards. Usually they want a man to be similarly or higher educated and ditto with income. He must be taller. Most put on their profile they want a man who is very close to her age and hence excluding older men of more than 5 years.
3) They are confused what men want. They talk a ton about their dogs/cats. They go on and on about their jobs. They basically seem to write a profile that another woman would enjoy. Rarely do these women talk about things that a man like me cares about. Like are they kind, nurturing and do they know how to cook and generally make a man happy?
I said to myself, most of these women are not worth the effort required to have a good marriage. I found another dating site for another country and found exactly what I was looking for. More women that fit the mold I was looking for than I could shake a stick at. Once I saw that, I realized I did not have to compromise.
Where have all the good men gone? Well I humbly suggest a large number of these complaining, college educated, privileged princesses are simply unappealing for many men. Which might be part of their problem finding said good man.
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