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Why College-Educated Women Can't Find Love
Daily Beast ^ | September 7, 2015 | Emily Shire

Posted on 09/08/2015 12:28:55 PM PDT by C19fan

You feel like you’re in romantic purgatory.

It’s real. It’s not a hazy paranoia.

And it’s not a matter of being too fat or too loud, too timid or too aggressive, too slutty or too frigid. If you’re a single, college-educated woman in Manhattan, the cards of love are stacked in favor of you remaining single—but it has nothing to do with texting a guy too soon or (not) sleeping with someone on a third date.

As financial reporter and author of Date-Onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game, Jon Birger puts it, “It’s not that He’s Just not That Into You. It’s that There Aren’t Enough of Him.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bitchy; hypergamy; mating; unappreciative; women
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To: hosepipe

“Not always...”

In my neighborhood, there is one couple who has stuck it out when she went through a terrible bout of cancer.

Another is a couple in their 30’s who live modestly in order for her to stay at home with their adorable babies.

Still another is a husband and wife who run a successful insurance agency together.

One couple has stuck it out through various financial challeges without calling it quits.

Across the street is a very elderly couple who have been together nearly their entire lives.

And caddy corner are two empty nesters who took in the wife’s disabled parents when they had no where else to go. They take it day to day. But they know one thing, they will continue to wake up every morning to a spouse who can be counted on.

I’ll admit, many of them are in their 40’s or older. So much has been lost in our current culture and with marriage now defined as ‘whatever’, I don’t have a lot of hope for the future of the family in America. Feminism has helped finish it off as well.

But, not always.:)


81 posted on 09/08/2015 1:42:11 PM PDT by 444Flyer (How long O LORD?)
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To: C19fan

Women have become breadwinners and now consider men optional. All they have to do to get what they want is go to court and they can effectively destroy a man. As a defense, men have become homosexuals.


82 posted on 09/08/2015 1:43:18 PM PDT by webheart (We are all pretty much living in a fiction.)
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To: lulu16

They desire that which they sought to systematically cull from society? They have reaped what they have sown and found the fruits thereof to be bitter.


83 posted on 09/08/2015 1:43:56 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Your first two sentences are an excellent distillation of the overall degradation of both men and women in the last 40+ years.


84 posted on 09/08/2015 1:46:11 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: C19fan

College educated women have higher standards than the bar hoping bed hoping high school drop out skanks.


85 posted on 09/08/2015 1:47:12 PM PDT by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: exDemMom
"Plus, keeping the lid down keeps the cats out of the toilet."

Not MY cats!

But I still put the lid down because I like to watch them work out the engineering involved ...

... for that reason and because my late-wife of 25 years trained me REALLY well.

86 posted on 09/08/2015 1:50:01 PM PDT by BlueLancer (Once is happenstance. Twice is circumstance. Three times is enemy action.)
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To: Erik Latranyi
Many European, Hispanic and non-indoctrinated American women embrace their womanhood. They know its power, they revel in its glory and enjoy everything about being a woman.

Amen. And women who embrace their femininity are amazingly powerful.
87 posted on 09/08/2015 1:50:42 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Signalman

Pajama boy doesn’t interest any straight girls. I don’t detect ANY testosterone in him.


88 posted on 09/08/2015 1:53:40 PM PDT by Yaelle (Trump would make a Gorbachev tear down a wall.)
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To: MeganC

And what decent man is going to want to commit to being with a New York liberal woman who’s had more riders than California Chrome?


Ah ha ha ha ha!


89 posted on 09/08/2015 1:57:11 PM PDT by Yaelle (Trump would make a Gorbachev tear down a wall.)
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To: bgill

Not from what I have seen on the modern college campus.


90 posted on 09/08/2015 1:57:44 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: lulu16

Did you read the article up there in the link?

The author advocates women chasing after men. You know, there’s nothing wrong with letting a man know you’re interested...in fact, it helps. But like I used to tell friends (who rarely listened)-—if you chase a man down, it’s a turn off.


91 posted on 09/08/2015 1:58:35 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office."))
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To: central_va

Nowadays college-educated men are more likely to be found throwing out lattes at Starbucks.

There’s nothing wrong with a blue-collar guy. The mechanic who’s worked on our cars for years has his own successful garage and is a millionaire. But there are a lot of women who wouldn’t look twice at him because he’s covered in grease during the day.


92 posted on 09/08/2015 2:01:22 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office."))
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To: C19fan

I intend to teach my sons that they should marry at or above their level of educational attainment (which I expect will be considerable for my boys). We have a responsibility to future generations to counteract the demographic dumbing down of “fundamentally transformed” America.


93 posted on 09/08/2015 2:01:49 PM PDT by Toliph
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To: C19fan

“The more interesting thing about the comparative IQ distributions is the standard deviation. Men are much more spread out than women. More men are Einsteins but more men have low IQ.”

I wonder if that’s the problem. If you figure that successfully completing college selects for people with, just to pick a number, an IQ of 107 and higher, I wonder what the areas under the male and female bell curves look like above 107. Since males have a slightly right shifted, but broader and flatter, distribution, it may be the case that there are fewer males in the 107+ IQ population than females.


94 posted on 09/08/2015 2:01:49 PM PDT by Toliph
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To: CatherineofAragon
"...if you chase a man down, it’s a turn off."

Only if there is an intentional roughness penalty after the tackle ...

95 posted on 09/08/2015 2:02:05 PM PDT by BlueLancer (Once is happenstance. Twice is circumstance. Three times is enemy action.)
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To: dfwgator

I love it. Don’t forget, this is the bone-in-the-nose African girl talking that he conjured up for the bit.

Yet, Eddie still got married after that bit in Raw. And divorced. Comedy as life.


96 posted on 09/08/2015 2:02:26 PM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: tanknetter

97 posted on 09/08/2015 2:02:40 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: 444Flyer

I know some good marriages wonderful stuff...
BUT most, nope.. it’s a mine field.. can get yer heart blown off..

Actually both genders have problems but especially white men..


98 posted on 09/08/2015 2:02:50 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Red Badger

And that’s another thing.

I got married in 1996 and I’m thankful I don’t have to deal with the males out there today...although most of the pajama boys are in their twenties, I guess.


99 posted on 09/08/2015 2:05:14 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office."))
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To: Chgogal

Me and my wife compromised. We put the toilet seat lid down.


100 posted on 09/08/2015 2:05:48 PM PDT by jimpick
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