Posted on 12/21/2004 3:59:39 PM PST by beavus
or four words: "I am your boss!" :-)
How very true, indeed.
This article is very true.
hehe
I see something basic here. In a western relationship, the two people have to be attracted to EACH OTHER. The MAN does not get to pick-and-then-marry-and-bed whomever he wishes.
IPSO FACTO, women prefer men who are 'stronger' and more ordinate than they. Without that, there can be no enduring relationship between the two perosnality types.
Personally I married the homecoming queen who graduated magna cum laude from USL. And indeed, she WANTS me to waer the pants in the family, yet she is no shrinking violet. After 27 years, it still works well.
Hogwash. I just wanna be kept. I'd rather she paid for the X-box anyway.
western relationship? I assume you mean western countries... since when did anyone in the West ever do that? You're kidding yourself really. It's apparent you've never been in the marriage/divorce threads on FR.
You're close -- ;-)
What I meant was that in Western countries, a man (or his family) does not just "select" a woman to marry and sh must comply. Folks generally date, fall in love etc etc.
I guess there are horrible exceptions you can point to, but I was speaking in generalities that would align to the study -- most marriages in the US are mutually agreed to.
interesting point... now I'll be waiting for the studies of why many of the same sex marriages are ending in divorce! LOL
This story isn't worth the paper it's written on and I'll challenge any man to a fist fight or quilting bee to prove it!!!
You mean I missed it!
I don't know about all this. I know lots of couples where the dominant breadwinner - the male - is the henpecked husband.
I also know couples where the wife has the dominant job and she is subservient to the husband who is unemployed or has a less prestigious job.
However, in the study men did not date women or vice versa. The males and females had only photos and descriptions of work environment.
Well, he must do something right for a successful woman to be "subservient". :-)
Whose salary will be missed more in the case of marriage and child birth assuming of course the chauvinistic male has the higher salary? And who is more able to care for the newborn assuming of course natural feeding is the choice?
Dumbass studies, dumbass results, dumbass waste of my taxes........... Time to re-examine the government's waste spending on dumbass stuff!!!!!
LOL! thanks the threads I am participating in are getting a little heavy.
"Well, he must do something right for a successful woman to be "subservient". :-)"
One would hope that would be the case...I think the exchange theory works out quite well in relationships, and the U of M study does nothing to either prove or disprove any other factors at work.
Right, but the study is supposed to somehow relate to real life. In real life, men do not look at a calogue of women with bios, pick one and then get to marry her. In real life a man can be attracted to a woman, but the feeling has to be MUTUAL (not just photographic) in order for a relaitonship to begin and endure.
The research m i g h t be valid, but the conclusions are not sound.
As ususal, we discerned that most men like attractive women.
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