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Professor warns of a ‘mating’ crisis in US as fewer men go to college
https://sports.yahoo.com ^ | September 27, 2021, | Gustaf Kilander

Posted on 09/29/2021 2:26:41 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19

“We have mating inequality in this country,” the marketing professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business told CNN on Saturday.

“Two in three relationships start on Tinder, 50 men, 50 women. Forty-six women show all their attention to just four men and what do those four [men] have? They signal success with a college degree,” he said.

- ADVERTISEMENT - Women make up almost 60 per cent of college students with men being at 40 per cent, and the gap is growing. In the fall of 1970, almost 59 per cent of college students were men, 41 per cent were women.

In 2020, US colleges enrolled 1.5 million fewer students than in 2015 and 71 per cent of those who have chosen to not study on are men. According to the Common Application, women made up 3.8 million college applications in the most recent school year, while men made up 2.8 million.

Mr Galloway noted that men also “drop out at a greater rate”.

“Over the next few years, for every one man that graduates from college, there’s going to be two women,” he said. “So this is becoming overwhelming. College is becoming the domain of women and not men.”

“The most dangerous person in the world is a broke and a lone male and we are producing too many of them,” Mr Galloway added. “The mating inequality that’s going to come out of this dearth of men in college poses an existential risk to our economy and our society.

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To: Jonty30
College needs to go. It should be as simple as showing up and writing all the necessary tests an industry needs to show competence and, upon passing with a sufficient grade, give the applicant a job.

That's how it used to be.

Then the Supreme Court decreed, in Griggs v Duke Power(1970) that any test which has blacks passing at a lower rate than whites is illegal discrimination. So companies instead started demanding college degrees.

Pass a law that says testing is not illegal discrimination, and the whole college establishment comes crashing down.

41 posted on 09/29/2021 4:17:40 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Everything that’s been achieved in the history of mankind has been achieved by not being safe.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
I think you’re right on target. The problem IS women. I’m about to cancel my membership in a prominent business networking group for that very reason. The leadership of this group has become dominated by women, and that has brought two things that make it a non-starter for me as a business owner:

1. More and more of the companies represented there are in industries that aren’t target clients for me.

2. At least 75% of the event notifications I receive from the group are for useless, pandering events like a “Women’s Networking Event,” “Women Entrepreneurs Golf Outing,” and crap like that.

In simple terms, the organization has become a dull, pointless waste of time.

42 posted on 09/29/2021 4:21:34 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("All lies and jest, ‘til a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.")
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To: rb22982
Women do not like to date/marry “down” as a general rule

It's called "hypergamy", the desire of women to mate with the best available. Women would rather stay home than go out with someone who doesn't meet their standards. Men are less picky.

Evidence: “Two in three relationships start on Tinder, 50 men, 50 women. Forty-six women show all their attention to just four men and what do those four [men] have? They signal success with a college degree,”

Women would rather share "Prince Charming", than have "Jack the auto mechanic" all to themselves. Go to a book store and browse the back covers of "romance novels" to see what women fantasize about.

The article is all about women being deprived of what they regard as suitable mates, because more and more men have stopped playing the game.

43 posted on 09/29/2021 4:28:37 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Everything that’s been achieved in the history of mankind has been achieved by not being safe.)
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To: RomanSoldier19
“Two in three relationships start on Tinder, 50 men, 50 women. Forty-six women show all their attention to just four men and what do those four [men] have? They signal success with a college degree,” he said.

THIS is the "heart" of the matter.

Women today have skewed values / criteria, are unwilling to invest time and energy in assessing the male candidates' qualities themselves and so rely instead upon "placeholders" or "proxies" like college degrees. The sex as a whole has always been notoriously hypergamous (meaning that they want someone who offers more than they themselves offer - "fairness" be damned!), but this is ridiculous.

Regards,

44 posted on 09/29/2021 4:32:24 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: PapaBear3625
Then the Supreme Court decreed, in Griggs v Duke Power(1970) that any test which has blacks passing at a lower rate than whites is illegal discrimination.

Shouldn't, by the same token, any university that graduates Blacks at a lower rate than it graduates Whites also be deemed "discriminatory?"

Regards,

45 posted on 09/29/2021 4:34:36 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek
Shouldn't, by the same token, any university that graduates Blacks at a lower rate than it graduates Whites also be deemed "discriminatory?"

That's why "Black Studies" was created, so that colleges could grant some sort of diploma to illiterates.

46 posted on 09/29/2021 4:39:27 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Everything that’s been achieved in the history of mankind has been achieved by not being safe.)
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To: PapaBear3625
It's called "hypergamy", the desire of women to mate with the best available.

That is NOT an accurate definition of "hypergamy."

Men, too, would like to mate with the best-available female.

But if it becomes clear that that female is not, in fact, available, then men are more flexible in lowering their standards until they find a female who is "willing."

Hypergamy does not refer to the "best available." It refers to always wanting a mate with a higher status, above-average characteristics - than one's own.

Typically, women will rate about 80% of all men as "below-average in appearance." Typically, women will demand that the man be six-foot tall (automatically excluding about 90% of all men). Typically, women will demand that the man earn much more than they, themselves do.

THAT is hypergamy.

Regards,

47 posted on 09/29/2021 4:40:15 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek; All

In leftist academe’s mind that was happening, hence the erosion of standards both in admission requirements, curriculum, the explosion of “studies\grievence” programs and “diversity” academic management positions.


48 posted on 09/29/2021 4:43:24 AM PDT by Reily
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To: PapaBear3625

100% agree. My wife and I separated for ~7 months a few years ago and the # of options I had in my mid 30s with a MBA and corp exec job compared to when I was 20 as a college drop-out was staggering to me - most of them were crazy although plenty of hotties across the age range from 19 to 40 - didn’t find many of them very interesting either. My wife and I ended up working things out fortunately and are happily together but if we ever did divorce, I’d never in a million years get re-married and risk alimony/splitting more assets/etc. The game is rigged so I’d play it my way, if at all.


49 posted on 09/29/2021 4:44:56 AM PDT by rb22982 ( )
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To: Singermom

“Who would want to marry those angry, vile, hateful, nasty lib woman anyway.”

Solution: why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free.


50 posted on 09/29/2021 4:45:58 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: Jonty30
It should be as simple as showing up and writing all the necessary tests an industry needs to show competence and, upon passing with a sufficient grade, give the applicant a job.

I agree. However, the Griggs vs. Duke Power case about 50 years ago made it extremely difficult to do this as the aptitude tests had a "disparate impact" on minorities. So now a college degree is used in place of such tests.

51 posted on 09/29/2021 4:50:28 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: alexander_busek

You are correct. Hypergamy is all about competition among women for the same top 10% of men.

You also have women spending their teens and 20’s chasing the same “cute guys” (tall, good looking, “genetically superior” physically), then reluctantly “settling” for a guy with decent earning power in their 30’s.

Some women choose to be “single moms”, having kids by the cute guys, then looking for some hard-working shlub to marry and support them and their spawn.


52 posted on 09/29/2021 4:52:20 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Everything that’s been achieved in the history of mankind has been achieved by not being safe.)
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To: RomanSoldier19
Professor
-Marketing professor
-New York University
-"Mating"
-"existential risk to our economy and our society"
-CNN

Tells you this story will be skewed propaganda and nowhere near the real truth.

53 posted on 09/29/2021 4:54:40 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: rb22982
100% agree. My wife and I separated for ~7 months a few years ago and the # of options I had in my mid 30s with a MBA and corp exec job compared to when I was 20 as a college drop-out was staggering to me - most of them were crazy although plenty of hotties across the age range from 19 to 40

What you discovered is that women peak in their desirability in their 20's, while men reach their peak in their 30's. The reason is that men prefer younger women, while women prefer high-status men. A 35 year old man can date unattached women down into their 20's, while a woman of 35 will find the number of suitable single men in her desired age range (32-40, or so) to be much smaller, AND the more desirable ones are chatting with younger women.

A guy at the OkCupid dating site wrote an article on the suject The case for an older woman, where he suggested young guys (20-25) who are not having much luck with girls their age, consider dating older women.

54 posted on 09/29/2021 5:03:18 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Everything that’s been achieved in the history of mankind has been achieved by not being safe.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

“Over the next few years, for every one man that graduates from college, there’s going to be two women,” he said. “So this is becoming overwhelming. College is becoming the domain of women and not men.”

I see the future, and it’s a crazy cat lady future.


55 posted on 09/29/2021 5:10:19 AM PDT by Flick Lives (We may or may not have reached herd immunity, but we've definitely achieved herd stupidity.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

We need to re-imagine marriage and culture incentives... Getting a liberal man with a major in ‘grievance studies’ isn’t a win for any woman.


56 posted on 09/29/2021 5:10:50 AM PDT by GOPJ (Same people who supplied pallets of bricks for BLM are supplying tent poles for illegals.)
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To: srmanuel

You are preaching to a bunch of people who think college is a bunch of indoctrination classes. I would suggest that in 90% of majors your assessment is accurate. They go out and get decent jobs.

There are a group of majors that reflect this story’s theme. No one would “mate” with those women anyway.


57 posted on 09/29/2021 5:20:55 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: RomanSoldier19

college is becoming increasingly worthless...actually less than worthless.


58 posted on 09/29/2021 5:23:21 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Antihero101607

We live in a country with 47 ‘FOUR STAR GENERALS’ can’t win a war against a stone age country. (by comparison World WAR II was won with 7 four star Generals....)

Today’s ‘Generals’ live in mansions and can’t win a war against anyone. Lloyd Austin’s mansion’s worth many millions of dollars and his isn’t the most expensive.

Our ‘professors’ graduate people who can’t do simple math or write a coherent sentence... but their students DO know the current group-think position on every WOKE idiocy in the country. Many of the ‘professors’ are the equivalent of our ‘Generals’... they ride the status of the competent people who came before them.


59 posted on 09/29/2021 5:26:55 AM PDT by GOPJ (Same people who supplied pallets of bricks for BLM are supplying tent poles for illegals.)
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To: Antihero101607

We live in a country with 47 ‘FOUR STAR GENERALS’ can’t win a war against a stone age country. (by comparison World WAR II was won with 7 four star Generals....)

Today’s ‘Generals’ live in mansions and can’t win a war against anyone. Lloyd Austin’s mansion’s worth many millions of dollars and his isn’t the most expensive.

Our ‘professors’ graduate people who can’t do simple math or write a coherent sentence... but their students DO know the current group-think position on every WOKE idiocy in the country. Many of the ‘professors’ are the equivalent of our ‘Generals’... they ride the status of the competent people who came before them. Our culture isn’t working for anyone beyond ‘white liberal ‘elites’... and it’s starting to fail. Marriage and families are only one area of that failure.


60 posted on 09/29/2021 5:29:03 AM PDT by GOPJ (Same people who supplied pallets of bricks for BLM are supplying tent poles for illegals.)
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