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Male Newspaper Columnist Knows When Women Should Marry
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04/28/09
Really? Has he been on a dating site lately? All the lonely people...
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(This is aside from all of the abuse stuff. I know with a high degree of certainty that, even has there been no abuse in the relationship, I still would not have liked him.)
At any rate, I think there is something to the fact that I know a ton of people whose first youthful marriages failed while their second or third marriages, which they entered in their late 20s and early 30s, are going strong. So there's my sociological data. It's at least as relevant as "My wife and I got married young, and we are still together!" Yeah, I read his sorry article, and all I can say is, I feel really bad for his students.
So STFU Regnerus.
04/27/09
My shriveling ovaries and I salute you, sir!
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Also, he describes himself as "fiscally conservative", which I believe can be a euphemism for "completely out of touch with current real estate and financial markets".
Plus, has he taken a look around at the emotional maturity of the guys - some of them way past 30 - who are still playing Xbox in the basement?
04/27/09
Don't even get me started on the lingering immaturity of men pushing their 30s. My last boyfriend was 27, a total tech-geek/gamer type. I stayed with him for seven months because he was a really nice guy, but I couldn't handle the immaturity anymore. I refused to allow myself to pair up with a child just for the sake of getting married in my "prime" years.
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PS--Yes, that is Jemaine Clement with me in my photo.
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a) you could fight it off in print and declare it bogus
b) you've admitted you have no stake in changing the situation, because as a man, as you age, your increased market value for women allows you to access the high-value younger women, so you have no credibility when sounding regretful about the whole sorry situation.
Today I feel sympathy and solidarity with women who pursue 'anti-aging' products. Normally I totally opt out of that, but does my future romantic happiness now depend on looking, acting, and seeming as young as possible?
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See how it all works out so nicely? The woman gets a walking wallet, the man gets an eternally younger woman. It's a win-win situation!
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I replied to an earlier thread--I'd love to sleep with the "wrong guy" right now. If only I could find one...
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There is a conversation about it upthread, and there's stats you can google on it.
But the mainstream papers don't want to talk about that, b/c
1) it would ruin their sensationalist angle and
2) it would actually point out that men have reproductive "flaws", just like women, based on age -- and that would ruin men's general marketing plan of themselves as the "sought after" gender.
Sometimes I have to hand it to the men. They have us so running around cleaning up after them, and fighting amongst ourselves for them, that we never stop to question the foundations of their PR.
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Of course, his doctor declined to have him tested, saying that I as the woman am more likely to be the problem (even though I am still six months away from 30). This, despite my concern being not "can we conceive?" but "if we conceive will our child grow up to be autistic or schizophrenic?" But it seems as though the convention wisdom of men that can produce healthy sperm infinitely while women shrivel up and dry out at 35 has penetrated even into the medical field, who I should think would know better.
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"I tend to like a certain kind of woman who do not seem to like my type"
is a particularly telling quote.
Just a hunch.
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