A Feminist Version of 'Joe Millionaire'? (Feminist Gag Alert)

Fox News ^ | May 18, 2004 | Wendy McElroy

[dinok]

“My daughter will have to marry down,” stated a sociologist at the colloquium, meaning that her daughter would have to "settle" for a husband with less education and a lower income. A black sociologist added that for years, women in her peer group have had to marry down if they wanted to marry at all.

[dinok]

I have been hearing some of this where I work. The women with degrees look down at men and other women who are "less mobile" code word for "beneath I the princess of the universe". I have a boy and a girl, and find sexual culture war an abomination. But I do know that we have been in one for years and no one dare say anything to women. Let's face it, after we gave them the licence to kill their kids, to take the kids away from fathers in divorces with no fault to judge if they are fit, or to accuse a man of rape with out having to face the accuser, are we surprised that American woman look down at men? No politician dare cross them...they are the social terrorists in our midst. Its their way or else.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Don't worry. College degrees are becomming less meaningful and hence less valuable every semester.

[mbraynard]

Silly women. They didn't 'get' how it works. See, the men that they are interested in, biography-wise, aren't interested in them. Those men want someone younger, happier, and more fertile. Smart, sure, but an advanced degree and a partner in some firm? PLEASE.

They tried to act the way men do thinking that would help them get attract an ideal partner(get a good education and a good job so you can support a family). Except they aren't interested in the analagous version of the woman that their counterpart men are after, they want their 'equal.' And men and women are not 'equal' and quality men are not interested in dating someone with a biography like their own.

[glock rocks]

LOL.

Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Get over it.

[dinok]

Men are from earth woman are from California.

[glock rocks]

Beach Boys fan, eh?

[BradyLS]

Not to worry. Women will soon receive the right to marry their favorite appliances any year now.

[dinok]

"Beach Boys fan, eh?"

Somewhat, it was a different era.
End of an era actually. And I was a kid then.

[dinok]

"Women will soon receive the right to marry their favorite appliances any year now."

Me thinks many love their appliance more than their man already. Battery sales are up.

[glock rocks]

LOL. Me too.

... kinda miss those days myself ...

Fortunately, I married an anachronism. Life is good.

[anonymous_user]

“My daughter will have to marry down,”

Women choose their mates, or has this sociologist forgotten that?

Easier to blame the future Mr. Wrong than to think the Princess is going to grow up all needy and with no discernment skills.

[Karyn M. PhD]

Silly women. They didn't 'get' how it works. See, the men that they are interested in, biography-wise, aren't interested in them. Those men want someone younger, happier, and more fertile. Smart, sure, but an advanced degree and a partner in some firm? PLEASE. They tried to act the way men do thinking that would help them get attract an ideal partner(get a good education and a good job so you can support a family). Except they aren't interested in the analagous version of the woman that their counterpart men are after, they want their 'equal.' And men and women are not 'equal' and quality men are not interested in dating someone with a biography like their own.

Well this 27 year-old female Ph.D. would LOVE to find an analogous version of the traditional female counterpart: Maid, chef, nanny, sexual object and source of fawning affection, all rolled into one. Are you kidding me? Where do I sign up??

Being as I'm evidently too old, miserable, and infertile to attract a comparably-educated man, that is.

[freekitty]

I never watch these reality shows. They are anything but reality. In fact, they are not even entertainment which what I am looking for.

[SC Swamp Fox]

Are you kidding me? Where do I sign up??

So you come home after a long day a work, you're eating your dinner, mind still clouded by the jerks you just finished dealing with at work, and hubby says, "You didn't even notice!" You frantically look around....is it his hair? New center-piece? Throw-rugs?

An hour later, he stands in front of the TV (Fox News), looks over his shoulder, "Do these pants make me look fat?"

Trust me. You're not missing much.

[glock rocks]

HAHAHAHAHA.

"Do these pants make me look fat?"

No, darlin, you make those pants look fat.

duck and cover!!

[lizma]

Being as I'm evidently too old, miserable, and infertile to attract a comparably-educated man, that is.

LOL! Hang in there. After 12 years of college at the age of 32 I married a guy with 3 more years of education than me.

Wanting to marry someone who has a similar background to you has nothing to do with feminism. It's been going on for many, many years, even before our men hating feminist were born. It has everything to do with who can you want to share forever with and that usually entails a person that shares your interests and dreams. People who value education marry people who value education. Seems logical to me.

But...I chucked it all when my kids came. Motherhood is by far the world's best career.

[atomicpossum]

Well this 27 year-old female Ph.D. would LOVE to find an analogous version of the traditional female counterpart: Maid, chef, nanny, sexual object and source of fawning affection, all rolled into one. Are you kidding me? Where do I sign up??

My wife has her degree. I'm a high-school gradjiate [sic].

I stay home with the babies. She works. Simple economics.

Any sociologists got a problem with that?

[sandbar]

I can understand a man wanting a wife that does the domestic thing, cooking, cleaning, rearing children. If only we could find men who can get over that whole concept of the wife NOT bringing home a paycheck on top of all that other. That has become a rarity nowadays.

[exDemMom]

They tried to act the way men do thinking that would help them get attract an ideal partner(get a good education and a good job so you can support a family).

Wrong: the women who act the way men do, do so because it is in their nature to act that way, and it has nothing to do with trying to attract a partner. It's the personality they were born with. I speak from personal experience. I've always been aware of the fact that I "think like a man," and I'm a heck of a lot more ambitious and goal-oriented than my husband.

[exDemMom]

Well this 27 year-old female Ph.D.

I can't tell you how much I wish I could have gotten my Ph.D. at your age. I'm a tad resentful of the circumstances that prevented me from being able to go to college and go on to a Ph.D. right after high school--but no one likes it when I talk about what I see as my missed opportunity. They always point out that I did so much before I ever went to graduate school, things that they never got to do (like spend 4 years in the Navy, get married, and raise a son). As it turns out, I'm now doing with my Ph.D. the one thing I've always wanted to do--I'm just a bit older than many of the people doing this, which is okay.

In what subject did you do your Ph.D.? Are you now doing a post-doc?