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America facing shortage of ‘economically attractive’ unmarried men, study says
Christian Post ^ | 09/12/2019 | Leonardo Blair

Posted on 09/12/2019 8:18:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: Regulator
Women in Workforce + Offshoring + Open Borders = Subsistence Jobs for Men... A nation that doesn’t support families is no nation at all, just a train hurtling towards oblivion.

I like that thesis. An argument about how different forces combine to have effect, in this case negative effect.

Here is my thesis opener...A full page article on marriage, from the Christian Post no less, and not a mention of God or what the Bible has to say about it. Is this a problem?

61 posted on 09/12/2019 9:13:38 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: Sicon

Yes! Feminism has removed the incentive for young men to better themselves in order to support a wife & kids, etc. Who wants to deal with all of that, when so many women have become toxic?


62 posted on 09/12/2019 9:14:26 AM PDT by Hazwaste (Democrats are like slinkies. Only good for pushing down stairs.)
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To: MrEdd

Sadly you are correct. No Fault divorce laws in most states actually force the husband to SUBSIDIZE his cheating wife’s adultery in many cases.


63 posted on 09/12/2019 9:14:44 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: dfwgator
French President?


64 posted on 09/12/2019 9:15:09 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: entropy12
Truth is that many “blue collar” jobs require at least as much intellectual capability as many white collar degrees jobs and actually require far more in the way of skills and capabilities

They work their asses off to make the people they work for a ton of money and many are paid commensurately

And yet our society looks down and does not value the guys who actually make things happen on a daily basis or give them the status they are due

65 posted on 09/12/2019 9:19:52 AM PDT by rdcbn ( Referentia)
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To: rdcbn

“We’re becoming the men we wanted to marry”/ Gloria Steinem
Problem Solved!


66 posted on 09/12/2019 9:22:24 AM PDT by Fred911 (YOU GET WHAT YOU ACCEPT)
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To: SeekAndFind

This isn’t a surprise. Men are the wrong gender to gain success on the good looks. (See Kamala)

rwood


67 posted on 09/12/2019 9:24:02 AM PDT by Redwood71
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To: SeekAndFind

Imagine the screams if somebody said America had a shortage of young (under 30), non-obese women interested in dating the kind of man who would actually be willing to marry them?

As opposed to spending their 20’s and early 30’s sleeping around with “desirable” men who only want no-strings sex, and then expecting the men they ignored in their youth to provide them with a ring (and a house and other hard-won assets) after they are too used up to be desirable to the men they really like?


68 posted on 09/12/2019 9:25:52 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: rdcbn

Yep. This describes the situation to a “T”.

The kinds of men they say they want....ie the “nerds” who got their degrees and built up their careers didn’t do all that work to end up with a woman who has none of her youth left and who they know doesn’t really want him. She’s just willing to settle for what she previously considered an unattractive schlub because now he has his career on track. There is nothing in it for him.

No wonder all these women will complain there’s a “shortage” of good men to marry. No there isn’t. You just played your cards exceptionally badly.

As a consultant I’ve learned this lesson in my career. Be VERY careful about turning down something that is good pursuing something that is great - particularly if that great opportunity is higher risk. You will probably not be able to circle back around and pick up food after great falls through. Then you get knocked down to average and have to hope you can get even that. When you’re offered something that’s good right now.....you should probably take it. It’s exactly the same in dating/relationships.


69 posted on 09/12/2019 9:26:39 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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Well, sad for them. I am a senior engineer with 28 years experience at a fortune 500 company. Crossed the 6 figure threshold in the 90s. Very well traveled. Active. Well read. Do not drink excessively, no tobacco. Zero interest in watching TV or playing video games. Have no ex wives, no ex children, no debt, retiring in a few years. For my friends children, I teach them to fix their cars and rebuild FJ40s for fun and profit, how to grow their own food and how to cook up a storm, I take them skiing in the winter, and hiking in the summer, camping and 4 wheeling all year long, and I tutor them in all levels of math through calculus, diff eq, linear algebra, physics, chemistry, etc. in other words, I am very involved with bettering their lives. Never had the knack with women, when I was younger was a little shy and lacked self confidence. Now I am anything but shy, and have plenty of confidence, but no longer have interest. The type of woman I would marry is already long married anyway. The point is there are many people like me. I know quite a few of them


70 posted on 09/12/2019 9:27:03 AM PDT by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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To: SeekAndFind

Suck on it feminists.


71 posted on 09/12/2019 9:27:34 AM PDT by DownInFlames (Galsd)
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To: Zathras
".... When I was in my 20’s, women never gave me the time of day...."

Same with me. I was college-educated but shy and found it hard to talk with nice gals at that age.

Now I'm retired and much more confident and outgoing. A pretty lady has latched onto me. She loves my ass. Literally.

She tells me the same thing this article says. All the the guys her own age are, in general, worthless POS.

They have no goals, no discipline, no drive or no ambition. They are immature for their age. They think they are God's gift to women, when they'd be better suited to go back home and live with their mamas.

She's told me that men like me do not exist in her generation. I am responsible, reliable, respectful, honest and generous to a fault.

I'm 72 and she's 45. Go figure....

72 posted on 09/12/2019 9:28:57 AM PDT by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: TheThirdRuffian

Thanks for the clarification. I still don’t see a major barrier to getting married, it just looks like more of a choice.

It has been decades since I was single. Can you explain what a mercenary women is?


73 posted on 09/12/2019 9:29:28 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
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To: FLT-bird

Not be able to circle back around and pick up good. Not “food”.

Damn autocorrect


74 posted on 09/12/2019 9:30:42 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Sicon

As my super sexy and dear wife of 13 years says “ good thing you’re tall good-looking and athletic!”

- just a working stiff blue collar contractor


75 posted on 09/12/2019 9:31:21 AM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: SeekAndFind

Can’t help but wonder if the women who are distressed at the thought of marrying someone making the 53K mentioned in the article are the ones who also expected their parents to buy them a car at 16, designer handbags and jewelry at 18, had to keep up with their friend’s obsession with material items..so now boo hoo, can’t find a man who will keep them in Chanel?

Sigh...


76 posted on 09/12/2019 9:31:49 AM PDT by luckodeirish (The Land of the Free-Because of the Brave!!!!!!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I live near an area where wealthy people reside full and part-time. All the old guys who aren’t with their first wives have younger, pretty wives or girl friends. I guess this article explains why.


77 posted on 09/12/2019 9:32:15 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The internet has driven the world mad.)
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To: rdcbn
There is a solution to this marriage crisis, but it only works for those who want to listen...


78 posted on 09/12/2019 9:33:00 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: SanchoP

Give me a break. The national average is $26/hr no matter what so and so says they make.


79 posted on 09/12/2019 9:45:28 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: entropy12

There are some real hard heads( not you ) on Free Republic that project every personal cockamamie experience onto the entire world.


80 posted on 09/12/2019 9:45:48 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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