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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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I could of summarized the article with one simple word: hypergamy. Situation of hypergamy hitting the lack of supply of higher status men. There was similar fears among the Victorians with what was thought the lack of marriage opportunities of daughters of middle class families.
1 posted on 09/08/2015 12:28:56 PM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Seen a few articles about this.

They all miss the real question. If men are not going to college, where are they going?


2 posted on 09/08/2015 12:32:20 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: C19fan

Teddy Roosevelt said 1 baby per 6 college education WASP women was Race Suicide. No baby love is—you pick it, self love, no love, loveless, terminally lovely.


3 posted on 09/08/2015 12:34:09 PM PDT by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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To: C19fan

Too many fish,
too few bicycles.


4 posted on 09/08/2015 12:34:18 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Voting is acting white.)
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To: redgolum

It seems they’re staying
home where rent is free,
and video games don’t reject you.


5 posted on 09/08/2015 12:35:38 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Voting is acting white.)
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To: sparklite2

Good one!


6 posted on 09/08/2015 12:35:44 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: C19fan

I got rid of my last one, she grew a little ugly and could never be trained to leave the toilet seat up.

I also remember telling her there was no way come night time, I could never kiss the lips that chewed my ass all day.

Hell, if I’d shot her when I first wanted, I’d be out by now. Instead, she took me to the cleaners legally/financially, so no, I wont be looking for another any time soon.


7 posted on 09/08/2015 12:36:17 PM PDT by umgud
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To: C19fan
As a PUA, red piller, etc, I have some thoughts.

There can be many issues, but you get it already. Its called hypergamy (your first tag). And in that SWPL, urban, they can end up as a bitter cat lady.

8 posted on 09/08/2015 12:37:33 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: C19fan

Why would the “woman of today” want to limit herself by forming a relationship with a nasty, mean, smelly man?


9 posted on 09/08/2015 12:37:43 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: redgolum

I read an article yesterday on the Huffington Post (please mod do not delete me-—research behind enemy lines) and they bemoaned they missed old school dating.

In other words, they wanted gentlemen. Too bad they aren’t ladies to deserve them.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/7-things-we-miss-about-old-school-dating_55e0a57ce4b0aec9f3532456


10 posted on 09/08/2015 12:39:33 PM PDT by lulu16 (May the Good Lord take a liking to you!)
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I wonder why there is a 35 pt female-male gap in the college population. The male population has a slightly higher mean-IQ than the female population, so if our boys are not going to college at the same rate as our girls, there are a great deal many boys whose potential we are not developing.


11 posted on 09/08/2015 12:40:01 PM PDT by Toliph
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To: lulu16

A guy isn’t above marrying someone below his economic class, but I would think that most professional women are not interested in men below their economic class.


12 posted on 09/08/2015 12:41:03 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: umgud
I got rid of my last one, she grew a little ugly and could never be trained to leave the toilet seat up.

Oh my God we are a perfect match in hell. I couldn't train him to leave the seat down!!!

13 posted on 09/08/2015 12:41:25 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: C19fan; MeganC; Army Air Corps; Norm Lenhart
Ping!

What do you think Megan?

14 posted on 09/08/2015 12:41:40 PM PDT by KC_Lion (This Millennial is for Cruz!)
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Because females have been programmed by the liberal elitists to behave like men and shun femininity. No straight man wants to be with a woman who acts like a man. So males seek sex and nothing more because there IS nothing more except females who want to wear THEIR pants. Thanks to feminism, sex is easy for men to get so why bother to get into a relationship?

Feminism killed the notion of relationships.

15 posted on 09/08/2015 12:41:41 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: Toliph

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 IQs.


16 posted on 09/08/2015 12:41:52 PM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Our grandmothers and great-grandmothers were super women. They set high standards for themselves, and men were complimented by their attention. They often received several offers of marriage and could choose the most worthy of them. Because this man would be their partner for life and the father of her children, they were careful to weigh character as well as material considerations. These marriages lasted and were blessed.

Where did we go so wrong?


17 posted on 09/08/2015 12:42:17 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: C19fan
Women are very picky, more shallow than men. He must have a certain education, certain wealth, certain wage earning potential, certain height; plus he must have the 'bad boy' factor.

Perfect guy 20-30 yr old biker with a Phd, his own business with a million in the bank and with looks like a young Brad Pitt and is 6'5".

18 posted on 09/08/2015 12:44:28 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: redgolum

“If men are not going to college, where are they going?”

I read somewhere that men are going to college at about the same rate today that they were 45 years ago. The difference is that women are going to college at approximately twice the rate they were 45 years ago.


19 posted on 09/08/2015 12:44:46 PM PDT by riverdawg
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To: KC_Conspirator

Maureen Dowd being a case in point.

Oh my, did I just trigger the Catherine Zeta Jones rule?


20 posted on 09/08/2015 12:44:55 PM PDT by tanknetter
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