No kidding! Finding a decent and successful enough man is not an easy task these days!
My BA in Gender Studies and 3/4 time job at Victoria Secret doesn’t impress you?
THESE WOMEN ARE IMPOSSIBLE!
Financial success is over-rated. All you need is love...love is all you need...Beetles song.
Western society is really screwed up.
Feel really sorry for the young guys these days. An unintended consequence of relative economic independence for women is they have little interest in getting married and just want hook ups and tinder. As a result, its like high school all over with all the girls chasing the few hot guys while ignoring guys who they perceive to have lower status or desirability, who they reject pretty shamelessly.
This goes on - for a while.
Like until early to mid thirties when they are starting to look a bit worse for the wear after a decade or so of good times in the party time, hook up culture and fewer and fewer guys are are asking for phone number.
And all those undesirable nerds are finally entering their peak career years after years of putting in their dues.
Now that THEY are successful, the last thing they want to do is seriously date the women who have been rejecting them for their entire adult lives and who they have a serious chip on their shoulder against.
Instead, they are going for the younger girls in their teens and early twentys who are working hard at starting the cycle that the now increasingly desperate thirty somethings are at the end of
At the end of the day, everyone is miserable, alienated from members of the opposite sex and increasingly bitter as the prospects of a meaningful relationship and traditional family life with kids fades into oblivion
People with at least a rudimentary understanding of human sexuality predicted this when no fault divorce laws first began to be passed. They also predicted a push for homosexual marriage if no fault divorce could first be passed. Here we are now, and they were right on both counts.
Frankly though, this state of affairs is not in any way a problem. It is a solution. People who don't want the injured party to be compensated in the event of a divorce have no business whatsoever being married themselves. When we have people who implement just laws again this situation will change.
“No kidding! Finding a decent and successful enough man is not an easy task these days!”
This has been going for at least 6 decades. I had great jobs in the summer, and a lot good part time jobs in high school and college.
My Dad was a disabled vet on a pension, and my mother was a school teacher.
No problem getting dates in college, shortly after discovering that I was not from a wealthy family. I became a lost cause for most of the females looking for a rich hubby instead of a good degree. After they found out that I was not from a rich family, they moved on or put me in neutral.
I was one of the first in my college senior year to get a good job offer from a big company. The Company’s data and my monthly salary was posted on a bulletin board outside of the dean’s office.
A recent phone call from my roommate my senior year in college drove that point home. He answered my call to him as, “Hello to the guy with the $450 /month job offer his senior year in college in 1960!”
He laughed and retold, how he and my other room mate joked about standing guard and charging admission for the college girls suddenly interested in me, not my room mates.
That continued until I quit that job after graduation. For about 4 weeks, I became a leper. Then, I got another and even better paying job. Suddenly, I became very popular with women I had known or just met.
Flash forward a few decades and a younger relative, a chef, in his 40’s left Portland and moved back to California. He ended up in the wine industry and held two top jobs with his new company. He moved to a smaller town near the winery and started dating.
He felt that the women, who came on to him were validating his credit report and Dun and Bradstreet rating. He had made friends with an older female psychologist, and she confirmed his feelings.
He is a handsome and very smart young man. He actually did a small cameo movie role for an established Hollywood actor while living in Portland. He had one of these prospective gold diggers, who while in bed with him asked him how much he had in his 401K.
His free psychologist lined him up with a great woman, who had the local male gold diggers after her. That will be 2 years ago in a few weeks. They are a great couple.
So things have not changed in 6 decades.
They will be even more intense with guys with IUDs/Instant Unemployment Degrees.
At least the gay ones are now out so women won’t have to dig very deep into their closets.