[SauronOfMordor]

I'm wondering how they define "good". I'm curious for selfish reasons, of course, being a 40+ bachelor who has always wanted to be married but never seemed to be deemed "good".

Women's definition of "good" generally involves:

• Makes significantly more money than her
• Taller
• No more than a few years older (unless very affluent)
• in good physical shape
• supportive of her goals
• not demanding she be supportive of HIS goals

For high-earning, older career-women, its hard to find somebody who meets these criteria. The supply of available 30-45 yo professional men is small, and they have more options. A professional man is more likely to marry a woman with greatly less income or education than the reverse. Since his pool of acceptable women is much larger, he is more likely to find somebody he likes, and not have to settle for a 40 yo professional woman with a chip epoxy-glued to her shoulder

[Mamzelle]

re: A professional man is more likely to marry a woman with greatly less income or education than the reverse.)))

Really think this is so? I happen to know three househusbands married to high-earning women, and it appears to me that men these days would rather have the extra income than a wife at home with his kids. I think more men are expecting earning power from their wives.

[BuddhaBoy]

Since his pool of acceptable women is much larger, he is more likely to find somebody he likes, and not have to settle for a 40 yo professional woman with a chip epoxy-glued to her shoulder

Careful, buddy. Someone is going to call you a woman-hater for spewing such truths. You better clean that up. LOL.

[Tall_Texan]

...not have to settle for a 40 yo professional woman with a chip epoxy-glued to her shoulder.

They told me those were padding. It's on both shoulders.

[Jim Noble]

>> A professional man is more likely to marry a woman with greatly less income or education than the reverse<<

Obviously.

And, have you noticed how this positive trait of men (open-minded, not judgemental, accepting of different kinds of people) is turned against us by the Maureen Dowds of the world?

"What's the matter, boy? Afraid of strong women?"

I think these women subconsciously emulate what they desire in men (power. money, fame) in an attempt to become attractive to men.

Since these things are not an attractant to men (they're not a negative, either-they just are not salient to us in the way they are to women), this usually fails.

When they find a man who is attracted to these things (i.e., to himself), he is almost inevitably a narcissist, which has problems of its own.