It takes time to blow the bubble created by the Media that injects a lot of unrealistic expectation for the women. Some women think they can have the best of both worlds, the men supplicating her materially while she offer no "feminine side" in return, which is not going to last. Equal rights but no equal responsibility. That's not going to last.
Remind me of one quote All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected. Donald Trump
Your science daily article is a few years older than the article I posted. The daily mail, first of all is garbage, and I think the person writing that article needs to try and understand that correlation doesn't equal causation.
Keeping the OP in mind, it sounds like the problem is with men rather than women. If people want to marry people with the same incomes, and women are earning more, then it sounds like men need to step up their games.
Tom Jacob, the journalist in your source is terrible in understanding the issue. Basically he is saying men and women are same in casual sex except in area where they are different. women need to be choosy about their sexual partners; they’re looking for men who are likely to stick around and provide support during their child-rearing years. Men, on the other hand, have an evolutionary incentive to spread their seed as widely as possible With that kind of standard, it isn't quite casual... And my second studies on wealth and sexual satisfaction found similar correlation in China, America and Germany. We cannot prove causation, but the trend itself make evolutionary sense.
The OP who wrote the article only had herself to blame. When I see phrase like "a stroke of wild great luck" it is no wonder that she has been on the treadmill to disappointments. She has been hoping that relationship by itself just turns out to be good, if she is lucky. Things don't turn out nice and good but themselves. Planning is done and effort to be made.
Feminism destroys everything it touches. Where feminism exists, there can be no natural balance of masculine and feminine. Because the human ego must perpetually throw a monkey wrench in the middle of everything to prevent it from running smoothly. Mother nature governs the world. And mother nature is not a feminist.
I you decide to limit the people you want due to education/culture/income then you deserve the situation you land in. If you are looking for a caring friend to raise a family and be a teammate then you would have more options. For all the men that land between a woman's legs, its amazing they can't choose one to just roll the dice with. If you look around, there are plenty of single older women that are stuck that way and run out of sexual option once they are no longer competitive with the younger and more fertile models out there. My parents have been married since 1968 and have run though a bunch of issues. If you stop walking into relationships with a bunch of outclauses you might find what you are looking for. Natural selection allows there to be more women available than men as if there were 5 men and 1 woman on an island then, the people would likely die out in a generation or two. You have 5 women and one man, you can produce an explosive tribe. Even the Bible indicates such as neither Abraham or Jacob locked in with just one woman. Men are meant to have more than one woman but out of respect for their mate some will avoid cheating.
Women aren't the only ones who have discovered the single lifestyle. I have too. I'm not going to look for a mate. I'm fine with being single, and not for a "bar scene," or anything like that, but just living life alone without a significant other. You see, I grew up in a large family. The eldest child of 6 siblings in a household that valued the ancient traditions of the eldest son is responsible for taking care of and raising all the other children of the family. As the "third Parent" of the family I really took care of by brothers and sisters as best I could while my parents worked. Homeschooled I was always home. In my teens I knew as much about children as a 30-40 something parent, and while I studied in college I was already worrying whether my family could afford to send my siblings to college what with rising prices of tuition. Now, I have experienced so many years of child care by all rights I should be retired from the child making business. And so I am. In another time or society I might old enough to be a grandparent before I felt this way. However, I can control my reproductive urges, no problem, and I have come to embrace solitude but shun intimacy and I hate being touched. This suits me fine. I already have my family: my siblings.
There are many men looking for relationship but cannot get what they want. "Players" are exaggerated hypes that are rare in real life. But many women wanted Brad Pitt even though they are not Angelina Jolie. Are they sticking with their high school sweet hearts or spent most of their youth chasing the college football captain, without realising that their value depreciates as time passes? My parnets had no problem as well. They had same views on large issues pertaining kids, spending, and other values, even though they are far apart in taste, apitude and many other things that can cause frictions in everyday lives. The ratio is only slightly more on the female birth by nature. Real significant distortion are largely social. Russian male death rate from alcoholism and Chiense selective abortion of females are two examples.
LOL, yeah... I'll prob stay on this side of the fence. At least until they come up with a magic lesbo pill. Then I might be tempted to switch teams!
Maybe that's the difference between men and women...I don't care what a woman does for a living...aside from something illicit...nor how much she makes. So I dump her because she loses her job? She's automatically a deadbeat? Nice. So much for building a support system in lean times... I'll just kick someone while their down...and find an employed mate.
Government is the new Husband. Most women dont want husbands cause they get paid by the government for being a single mother. $$ F the family... F tradition... F morals... Its exactly what the left handed have always wanted... Total government dependance....
I may be wrong, but it seems that women who achieve high social/economic/educational status are loath to accept a mate with lower or equal status. I think that's at least a part of the unwillingness to marry until the "perfect" mate fails to arrive before the big 4-0. I'm sure there is more to it than that. There seems to be an unwillingness to accept a good man in preference to wait for a feminine viewed "ideal" man. It's interesting to ponder from an anthropological point of view. _ _ _
I sincerely believe romantic comedies are partly to blame for this too. I sometimes hear other women spout such ridiculous banalities about relationships, men and their expectations from them that it makes me wonder whether we coexist in the same universe at all.
The consequences of having unrealistic expectations about potential suitors... expect a comfortable, lonely life living with 20 cats... hey you've got the nice 401K and Audi parked in the garage to cuddle up with...
Most women evolve and develop different attitudes and opinions with more life experiences and maturity. I'm sure not the same woman I was at 25. In fact, I'm 180 degrees from what I was then. I was a liberal and sort of a feminist. But all of a sudden life smacks you in the face and there are realities and responsibilities that require changes: like having kids, for one thing. There are a few strident feminists who, partly because of real good incomes, have remained strident in their views. Gloria Steinem, for one. My biggest gripe with those women is their lack of tolerance and support for women, like me, who have taken a more traditional route in life: marriage and family. Two things these women, apparently, are not interested in.
That makes a lot of sense. Romantic comedies over time could lead to all sorts of unrealistic attitudes and cynicism towards relationships. _
True enough but usually with maturity, those notions (goofy romance and stuff) go by the wayside. Young women do have those starry eyed, rosy glasses ideas - for a while. Loving relationships aren't all hearts and flowers. They take some attention and work from both sides to sustain them. I think some people (and since this thread is about women) and some women don't want to put that kind of effort into it.
