If she’d been black and poor he wouldn’t have given her the time of day, either.
If you were a woman, would you like to marry a used car salesman or a professional golfer?
A sign holder or a professional chef?
A McDonald’s counter guy or a law student?
A bus driver or a man runs his own photography studio?
What a man does says a lot about what a man is. Industrious, hard working, self-disciplined, ambitious, intelligent? Or lazy, clueless, tempermental, stupid, or manipulative?
Of course you want a hard-working, intelligent man.
What sort of man would you like your daughter to marry?
I think you don’t understand what I am saying.
Just because you work at an Ihop or a Used car lot does not mean you are not smart, or not hard working or any of the things you tried to make fit. These people could be working their way through college, whatever.