Dalrock: Men no longer footing the bill to court older women

CaptainPriceThatAss · 2012-07-24T22:24:36+00:00

Good. Women should be celebrated for being financially independent. Great strides toward equality. As a result of your equal rights, you get the equal responsibilities of paying for your own shit.

imbignate · 2012-07-24T18:45:36+00:00

"The sexual value of youth remains a recession-proof commodity."

A harsh truth, but truth nonetheless. A person's youth, intelligence, beauty, skill, etc all make up their worth. You invest your time, energy, abilities, and talents and then reap the rewards later.

If I spent all my youth doing whatever I wanted and expected at age 35 for a company to hire me when I had less professional experience than someone who had started young, nobody would blame the company.

Everyone wants to have security and love throughout their lives, but there's an established formula for how you can receive it: by making someone's life better. If you good looks aren't as good as they once were and you company isn't as charming as you think then you'd better bring someone else to the table.

Am I the only one who isn't surprised that 40 year-old men aren't jumping at the bit to take a 35 year-old mid-level executive to dinner on their own dime when they could take a 25 year-old that's younger and often times with less emotional baggage? We live in a capitalistic and consumeristic society, so people are doing exactly what we'd expect: voting with their dollars.

toptrool · 2012-07-24T20:09:12+00:00

before reading my post further, acknowledge that i believe the sole purpose of marriage should be for procreating. with that said, it is not surprising that men are rejecting 30+ year old women when it comes to dating. in my view, to financially secure men, desiring children seems to be the only reason for them to wed (or, to commit). older women are at a disadvantage not only because of their fading looks, but also their fertility.

the 7% rise in spinsterhood is not surprising. feminism has not only hurt men, but also younger women. feminists have sold the younger generation of women the myth of having it all, but as soon as these women hit 30, they come crashing down to reality. by then, their value for marriage has depreciated, and a new cycle of spinsterhood is created.

atiwywr · 2012-07-24T21:51:04+00:00

Good. The cougar phenomenon is perverse. It is quite natural for men to be attracted to much younger women, but quite unnatural for women to be attracted to much younger men. Yet we criminalize men having sex with fertile women who haven't passed some ridiculously arbitrary age limit, while celebrating older women looking at pictures of a 14 year old Justin Beiber who even years later still doesn't look like he's even hit puberty. I see who the real perverts are.

2012-07-25T09:43:31+00:00

On of the comments at the bottom raised several important points:

I also notice an undercurrent here of financial iresponsibility. Spending all their money on lifestyle and nothing on preparing to support a family. Gym memberships, spa treatments and makeup are all blown wealth that does nothing to add to a woman’s net worth. An established woman in her late 30′s or forties should enter a relationship with a stable chunk of cash and properties that she can combine with her husbands similar chunk to produce wealth that can be used to support a family. The women in this article all see money as just something to support themselves but men are expected to save so that they have extra to blow on them. This is just one more thing that makes them unsuitable as wives. They are not thinking like they want to be a part of a financial partnership that benefits someone else.

stestephe · 2012-07-25T10:57:54+00:00

Excellent: "There is a very small likelihood that a woman finds herself in her late 30s or 40s unmarried after seriously looking for commitment." The code-word in vented by women in the "dating" sub-culture (and used by both sexes), "long term relationship" actually means "medium-term temporary sexual and companionship arrangement." The endless "issues" talk in women's pop culture has created a situation where so many women are encouraged to lie to themselves and now do not even know they are lying to the men they talk to (even though the lied-to men know they are being lied to).

2012-07-25T09:14:05+00:00

I fail to see the problem. Women have spoken about right to preference for eternity. Now men are exercising that right as well. If bronze is just as much work and effort as gold why shouldn't I go for gold?

Oh and on another note, this is the so cherished market economy that women have wanted out of the meat market for eternity.

DarthOvious · 2012-07-25T14:40:35+00:00

Well what do you expect to happen? Society is built around the better woman being the younger and more attractive woman and all the girly mags support this idea and even further it when they have pictures of air brushed women to a ridiculous standard of beauty on the cover of their magazines. However once they are over the hill they then start complaining because all the suitable men are dating younger and better looking women. Well you reap what you sow.

Celda · 2012-07-24T20:04:55+00:00

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Title	Dalrock: Men no longer footing the bill to court older women
Author	MaunaLoona
Upvotes	34
Comments	16
Date	July 24, 2012 5:35 PM UTC (13 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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