Posted on 02/28/2008 8:28:50 AM PST by Kaslin
The reality of the radical femnist movement.
Empty beds, empty homes, empty hearts, empty wombs.
A gnawing loneliness and despair.
Sad. Depressing.
I may be wrong but at least in my circle of friends and acquaintances it seems when career minded women hit their late 30s and begin looking to settle down, the men in their late 30s have decided they’re going to be bachelors. lol
This guy was looking for a green card and the women were too picky?.Maybe he was still moist from swimming the Rio Grande.
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A prosperous man in his 40’s doesn’t swim the Rio Grande....
Women who settle for Mr. Good Enough wind up leaving him later on because he simply wasn’t the right one. Certainly the expectations come into play here but when someone decides that they are worth a certain amount they don’t like marrying below the bar.
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AaaaaHH! Spinster remorse.
In 40 years they’ll be chasing any man in the retirement home till he succombs.
Unintended consequences. If any group deserves it, it’s the feminists. I’m shedding tears! NOT!
As I mentioned in another post, women simply don’t want to marry down. As they have achieved more the pool of suitors has shrunken.
MBAs don’t marry blue collar dudes who carry a union card.
“men in their late 30s have decided they’re going to be bachelors”
I resemble that description unless a really, really great woman were to come along that wanted ME, not the man that she thinks that she can changed me into.
Good observation! Maybe a switch on the Russian mail-order bride scenario? Or perhaps an Asian computer engineer on an H1-B visa?
Plenty of room for a potential culture clash, like when his relatives come to visit and your not allowed to ask how long they’re staying ...
The twenty somethings are into the hookup scene and that often times will carry them into their late 20s and early 30s. They learn nothing about how to have a relationship with a man and by the time they hit their early 30’s they wind up with a smaller pool to choose from since the smart gals with something to offer grab the good men. Meanwhile what they have waiting for them are the guys who lived off of hooking up with their ilk and the bitter or damaged men who got screwed over by some broad and they won’t settle down again.
I married at age 25 in 1980 (still married to the same woman, by the way), and that was considered “old” for the time. Now, I look around at the 25 years old “men” around the city (Chicago) and I wonder at the immaturity on display. I refer to the ubiquitous baseball cap, often turned backward; the entitlement attitude; the misogynistic and often outright crude behavior toward women (thanks to Bill Clinton for that); the endless partying; the endless games and sports; and so on. I don’t know how this has come to pass, but it sure is demoralizing to me in that I fear for our future.
Oh yeah. There's a really attractive prospect. Nothing said about being a true wife, supportive of husband and family. Instead, it's all about sucking everything away from the husband.
So no thanks. With an attitude like that these women do not deserve a husband or family. All they have earned is a shriveling up like the old prunes they already are.
They have married their careers and the government. Now they can sleep with it.
You guys sound like bitter, damaged goods. Just because you got dumped when you were in high school doesn’t mean all wimmin are evil. LOL.
Cultural rot continues apace. This is a product of feminism.
‘liberated women’ means irresponsible wont-get-tied-down men.
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