Posted on 09/12/2019 8:18:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I like that thesis. An argument about how different forces combine to have effect, in this case negative effect.
Here is my thesis opener...A full page article on marriage, from the Christian Post no less, and not a mention of God or what the Bible has to say about it. Is this a problem?
Yes! Feminism has removed the incentive for young men to better themselves in order to support a wife & kids, etc. Who wants to deal with all of that, when so many women have become toxic?
Sadly you are correct. No Fault divorce laws in most states actually force the husband to SUBSIDIZE his cheating wife’s adultery in many cases.
They work their asses off to make the people they work for a ton of money and many are paid commensurately
And yet our society looks down and does not value the guys who actually make things happen on a daily basis or give them the status they are due
Were becoming the men we wanted to marry”/ Gloria Steinem
Problem Solved!
This isn’t a surprise. Men are the wrong gender to gain success on the good looks. (See Kamala)
rwood
Imagine the screams if somebody said America had a shortage of young (under 30), non-obese women interested in dating the kind of man who would actually be willing to marry them?
As opposed to spending their 20’s and early 30’s sleeping around with “desirable” men who only want no-strings sex, and then expecting the men they ignored in their youth to provide them with a ring (and a house and other hard-won assets) after they are too used up to be desirable to the men they really like?
Yep. This describes the situation to a T.
The kinds of men they say they want....ie the nerds who got their degrees and built up their careers didnt do all that work to end up with a woman who has none of her youth left and who they know doesnt really want him. Shes just willing to settle for what she previously considered an unattractive schlub because now he has his career on track. There is nothing in it for him.
No wonder all these women will complain theres a shortage of good men to marry. No there isnt. You just played your cards exceptionally badly.
As a consultant Ive learned this lesson in my career. Be VERY careful about turning down something that is good pursuing something that is great - particularly if that great opportunity is higher risk. You will probably not be able to circle back around and pick up food after great falls through. Then you get knocked down to average and have to hope you can get even that. When youre offered something thats good right now.....you should probably take it. Its exactly the same in dating/relationships.
Well, sad for them. I am a senior engineer with 28 years experience at a fortune 500 company. Crossed the 6 figure threshold in the 90s. Very well traveled. Active. Well read. Do not drink excessively, no tobacco. Zero interest in watching TV or playing video games. Have no ex wives, no ex children, no debt, retiring in a few years. For my friends children, I teach them to fix their cars and rebuild FJ40s for fun and profit, how to grow their own food and how to cook up a storm, I take them skiing in the winter, and hiking in the summer, camping and 4 wheeling all year long, and I tutor them in all levels of math through calculus, diff eq, linear algebra, physics, chemistry, etc. in other words, I am very involved with bettering their lives. Never had the knack with women, when I was younger was a little shy and lacked self confidence. Now I am anything but shy, and have plenty of confidence, but no longer have interest. The type of woman I would marry is already long married anyway. The point is there are many people like me. I know quite a few of them
Suck on it feminists.
Same with me. I was college-educated but shy and found it hard to talk with nice gals at that age.
Now I'm retired and much more confident and outgoing. A pretty lady has latched onto me. She loves my ass. Literally.
She tells me the same thing this article says. All the the guys her own age are, in general, worthless POS.
They have no goals, no discipline, no drive or no ambition. They are immature for their age. They think they are God's gift to women, when they'd be better suited to go back home and live with their mamas.
She's told me that men like me do not exist in her generation. I am responsible, reliable, respectful, honest and generous to a fault.
I'm 72 and she's 45. Go figure....
Thanks for the clarification. I still don’t see a major barrier to getting married, it just looks like more of a choice.
It has been decades since I was single. Can you explain what a mercenary women is?
Not be able to circle back around and pick up good. Not food.
Damn autocorrect
As my super sexy and dear wife of 13 years says good thing youre tall good-looking and athletic!
- just a working stiff blue collar contractor
Can’t help but wonder if the women who are distressed at the thought of marrying someone making the 53K mentioned in the article are the ones who also expected their parents to buy them a car at 16, designer handbags and jewelry at 18, had to keep up with their friend’s obsession with material items..so now boo hoo, can’t find a man who will keep them in Chanel?
Sigh...
I live near an area where wealthy people reside full and part-time. All the old guys who aren’t with their first wives have younger, pretty wives or girl friends. I guess this article explains why.
Give me a break. The national average is $26/hr no matter what so and so says they make.
There are some real hard heads( not you ) on Free Republic that project every personal cockamamie experience onto the entire world.
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