Is there a shortage of marriageable men?

Claude_Reborn · 2015-09-24T03:56:04+00:00

No, but there is a shortage of men stupid enough to get married, given the current regulatory climate.

It also re enforces that women marry up, never down.

Women will never marry a man they consider "beneath" their social scale. So as things have vastly improved for women, and degraded for men in terms of economics, the pool of men women deem "Marriageable" has shrunk drastically.

blueoak9 · 2015-09-24T15:02:17+00:00

"There are shortages of men for college-educated white women…"

Well, isn't that just too bad.... the most voracious consumers on the planet will not be breeding more voracious consumers. However will we cope?

Wargame4life · 2015-09-24T08:04:06+00:00

I love stuff like this, im a college educated man with a great job and impressive work history and even been told a few years ago when i was in my late twenties I was good looking enough that I should be a model, also I genuinely would never cheat on a partner (never have and never would), and never even shouted or raised my voice at a partner.

do i want to get married? do i fuck! I have absolutely zero interest and it actually strikes me as a really really shitty deal.

I only hear about peoples divorces or people complaining about their wives/husbands.

additionally nothing turns me off more than materialistic people, Even if I was a billionaire, and could literally afford anything i wanted as much as i wanted, i would not want a wife or friends who thought "exclusivity" or "social status" was important.

I understand that obviously good things cost money and of course you cant buy a cut price lamborghini etc but people who pay big money for items purely for the "exclusivity" really piss me off.

in particular its jewellery, it seems socially acceptable for women to pine and lust after expensive jewellery, yet men who do the same are rightly seen as tacky crass and classless.

I don't think i have ever seen someone show a new piece of jewellery without quoting How much it cost.

Men are rightly scorned for being materialistic and we openly chastise and criticise friends and collegues who try and be all "showy" and are concerned with their status etc by buying exclusive brands/items.

but women genuinely seem to think it makes them unique or special or interesting, i have met so many women who genuinely seem to think their taste for expensive things is something to be proud of.

The so called "i have always had champagne taste, but a lemonade budget".

if you hitch your wagon (life) to that you will always be miserable.

Give me a happy funny sweet woman with a kind heart and sense of what really matters in life and all will be well, the problem is those people dont exists any more in our rampant consumer "Me first" culture.

pnw_diver · 2015-09-24T03:39:00+00:00

Not in Seattle!

DCharlieW · 2015-09-24T07:44:49+00:00

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2015-09-24T19:42:41+00:00

Now imagine the same article with the genders reversed and the obesity as the criteria for marrigability.

Or are men supposed to feel good about being judged solely by their earnings potential.

Title	Is there a shortage of marriageable men?
Author	jimrosenz
Upvotes	14
Comments	24
Date	September 24, 2015 2:57 AM UTC (10 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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