Smart women need to marry down to become mothers because there aren't enough smart men [tr]

UK Daily Mail ^ | July 8, 2018 | Sanchez Manning

[C19fan]

Intelligent women should consider marrying less clever men if they want to start a family, according to researchers.

There are simply not enough brainy men to go round – so women may need to widen their search, warned the author of a report that found a growing number of professional women were freezing their eggs because they couldn’t find ‘Mr Right’.

‘There are fewer educated men in the world for educated women to partner with,’ said Marcia Inhorn, professor of anthropology at Yale University.

‘So if women want to find a partner with whom they can have children, they need a more expansive notion of who is Mr Right.

[riri]

Oh yeah, I see this working out well.

And when he's not a lawyer, engineer, etc. inside of 5 years (when she's watching all her "friends" husbands climb the ladder) she will leave him for lacking ambition.

Then he's in "baby jail" for 15 more years paying half of his modest salary while she earns six figures and marries another 6 figure maker. They are going on vacations, buying real estate, she's getting new boobs, etc.

I have seen it happen. More than once.

[mylife]

Hint: Smart guys avoid you because you are a **tch.

[Yo-Yo]

Smart women need to marry down to become mothers because there aren't enough smart men

That's how it worked in my case...

[Ted Grant]

A husband can bring a wife into his world.

A wife can’t bring a husband into her world.

Proceed with caution.

[PapaBear3625]

Women prefer to marry up, status wise. At the extreme right of the bell curve, there are a small number of eligible men for every “executive” or PhD woman.

Meanwhile, men have no problem marrying a woman who is less educated or less high up in the corporate hierarchy, as long as she’s enjoyable company (where “enjoyable company” is defined as being pleasant, affectionate, and enjoying frequent sex, as opposed to spending her day complaining about the patriarchy).

[The_Media_never_lie]

More like “women buried in student loan debt for worthless degrees need to marry somebody who wasn’t dumb enough to bury themselves in student loan debt for a worthless degree to pay off their student loans for them.”

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Why would any intelligent man want to marry some woman dumb enough to go into hock for a useless degree?

[editor-surveyor]

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If your “worlds” are not similar, marriage is probably not a good idea.

The friction between those worlds will never evaporate.

[Forty-Niner]

No offense, but most people aren’t as smart or intelligent as they think they are. The newly credentialed are the most guilty of it.

[Salgak]

And, given the current culture, why would a man ***WANT*** to get married ? He can get all the sex he wants outside of it. The old bromide about why buy a cow when you get milk for free applies here. . .

[editor-surveyor]

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Men and women are ‘smart’ in different ways, usually.
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[Bob434]

[[The women married into my family just care about $$$.]]

Are there any unmarried women in your family? I’m broke

[sphinx]

The sexes score about the same on IQ tests with men scoring very slightly higher, the difference being too small to make much of a difference in the real world. Men, however, very often marry down status hierarchies. Some of this is biologically hard wired and some is socially conditioned, but there it is. Men, including smart and well educated men who should know better, are liklier to marry a woman for her physical charms. A man is liklier to marry a woman who he thinks/hopes will be a supportive partner and a good mother to his children. Society says it's ok for a man to have a stay at home spouse. But it doesn't work that way for the women, who marry across and up status hierarchies. (Jordan Peterson deals with this in some of his talks, and he's right.)

Bottom line, smart and well educated women face a marriage market in which x percent of their male intellectual peers will marry down, and x may be substantial. I'm sure the pickings do get slim, especially if a gal spends her 20's (a) chasing a career, (b) sleeping around, or (c) both, and waits until her 30's to start thinking about settling down. The good guys her age will be mostly gone, and she's no longer young and cute. If she was plain to begin with, her only option may be to become a feminist.

The good news, however, is that the problem will go away if women will scrap the double standard.The mismatch occurs in the first place because so many smart men marry down in terms of education and earning power. Women need to get over their status hangups and be willing to do the same. There should be nothing wrong with a woman doctor marrying a male nurse;the reverse happens all the time. Or a male teacher or cop or stay at home dad. Problem solved ... IF women will drop the double standard.

But they won't.

[editor-surveyor]

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>> “So many, female and male, do not want to get married Responsibility.” <<

[WKUHilltopper]

Too smart? You weren’t too smart to let the good one’s get away. LOL!! Choke on it.

[Mashood]

….”executive” or PhD woman.... = high maintenance.

[cranked]

‘Smart’ is defined as?

[NorthstarMom]

You hit the nail on the head. After years of observation I’ve come to the same conclusion.

[editor-surveyor]

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Right on the money!
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[PapaBear3625]

“Intelligent” women, code name for college educated career women, who gave up their prime child bearing years to pursue a career are hearing the ticking of their biological clock getting louder, and discovering that men have different requirements for a mate.

Correct. Given a choice, the average 35 year old professional would much rather have a cute 22 year old than a 35 year old PhD candidate in womens studies.

[dfwgator]

It’s just the way we’re wired.

Women naturally care about what their mate does for a living.

Men really don’t care all that much about what their mate does, unless it’s something like being a prostitute or a stripper. (I’m talking about marriage here, not dating)