What is the future of heterosexual dating when the number of men attending college continues to drop

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:College dating is not a big thing anymore. It’s all situationships now. No one thinks they’re finding their spouse in college and the ones who do want to wait years after college to experience adult life before they get engaged.

Because there is too much promiscuity. That's the reason.

There's less promiscuity now than there was a generation ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I say this as a woman who knows that most women would like to marry a college-educated man. But as women dominate the educational landscape, how will dating be affected? Since there will be fewer male college graduates.

Go with the trad school man who works hard, likes kids, coaches sports, runs a business.
Plumbers, GCs, electricians, etc all run apprenticeship models and make a lot of money and can craft their hours on or off. And have great tax advisors writing off the $500k pick ups, home office, etc.

Open your eyes Op.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:College dating is not a big thing anymore. It’s all situationships now. No one thinks they’re finding their spouse in college and the ones who do want to wait years after college to experience adult life before they get engaged.

Because there is too much promiscuity. That's the reason.

There's less promiscuity now than there was a generation ago.

This isn’t true at at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I say this as a woman who knows that most women would like to marry a college-educated man. But as women dominate the educational landscape, how will dating be affected? Since there will be fewer male college graduates.

Go with the trad school man who works hard, likes kids, coaches sports, runs a business.
Plumbers, GCs, electricians, etc all run apprenticeship models and make a lot of money and can craft their hours on or off. And have great tax advisors writing off the $500k pick ups, home office, etc.

Open your eyes Op.

I don’t want to marry a “trad” man.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I say this as a woman who knows that most women would like to marry a college-educated man. But as women dominate the educational landscape, how will dating be affected? Since there will be fewer male college graduates.

Go with the trad school man who works hard, likes kids, coaches sports, runs a business.
Plumbers, GCs, electricians, etc all run apprenticeship models and make a lot of money and can craft their hours on or off. And have great tax advisors writing off the $500k pick ups, home office, etc.

Open your eyes Op.

I think that's all fine however there aren't that many men willing to own their own business and then you run the risk of no one monitoring them. Where they go. What they do. How much marketing they do to keep the business running. This idea that every trade man is some clean cut guy who isn't going to do you wrong is nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Trade is what many men want to do to feel like a man I guess and do more physical labor and have more or a leadership role in their work. Whether it makes money or is beneficial to the family is as undecided as any other job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I say this as a woman who knows that most women would like to marry a college-educated man. But as women dominate the educational landscape, how will dating be affected? Since there will be fewer male college graduates.

Go with the trad school man who works hard, likes kids, coaches sports, runs a business.
Plumbers, GCs, electricians, etc all run apprenticeship models and make a lot of money and can craft their hours on or off. And have great tax advisors writing off the $500k pick ups, home office, etc.

Open your eyes Op.

But with the woman educated and thus making money she also wants an emotionally-supportive partner. Not just a financial provider like your post suggests.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I say this as a woman who knows that most women would like to marry a college-educated man. But as women dominate the educational landscape, how will dating be affected? Since there will be fewer male college graduates.

Go with the trad school man who works hard, likes kids, coaches sports, runs a business.
Plumbers, GCs, electricians, etc all run apprenticeship models and make a lot of money and can craft their hours on or off. And have great tax advisors writing off the $500k pick ups, home office, etc.

Open your eyes Op.

But with the woman educated and thus making money she also wants an emotionally-supportive partner. Not just a financial provider like your post suggests.

The post says nothing negative or about lack of “emotional support.” If anything having time at 4pm to coach a kids sport is awesome. Plus make own hours.
And if you think overeducated heterosexual bankers, litigators, politicians, hedge funders are hitting it out if the park with emotional support for their wife, you’d better put your brain back in your skull and think again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trade is what many men want to do to feel like a man I guess and do more physical labor and have more or a leadership role in their work. Whether it makes money or is beneficial to the family is as undecided as any other job.

Similar to some doctor tracks, it appeals to people who find tangible results rewarding.

The plumbers we call are Korean owned family company, make $200-500/ a call and fix and bring a 20 something apprentice, work 8am to 4pm, are wells pike, polite and fair. And fix things right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I say this as a woman who knows that most women would like to marry a college-educated man. But as women dominate the educational landscape, how will dating be affected? Since there will be fewer male college graduates.

Go with the trad school man who works hard, likes kids, coaches sports, runs a business.
Plumbers, GCs, electricians, etc all run apprenticeship models and make a lot of money and can craft their hours on or off. And have great tax advisors writing off the $500k pick ups, home office, etc.

Open your eyes Op.

I don’t want to marry a “trad” man.

Cool. Maybe a man absentminded professor would would better suit you and your ocd spelling for DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I say this as a woman who knows that most women would like to marry a college-educated man. But as women dominate the educational landscape, how will dating be affected? Since there will be fewer male college graduates.

Who cares. It all works out. And- gasp- they’re a whole 7.8B people outside your USA bubble.

[Anonymous]

What’s the crux issue here? Needing a college grad or needing emotional support?

With all the crap degrees out there maybe it evens out. If females get more easy studies majors and unskilled, low paying jobs, does their degree really matter?

[Anonymous]

Weird post. And you're definitely not a woman. More like Russian bot incel, but I digress.

There will likely just be more single moms by choice and society will shift to be more accommodating of this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What’s the crux issue here? Needing a college grad or needing emotional support?

With all the crap degrees out there maybe it evens out. If females get more easy studies majors and unskilled, low paying jobs, does their degree really matter?

They don't. No idea what you are saying here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:College dating is not a big thing anymore. It’s all situationships now. No one thinks they’re finding their spouse in college and the ones who do want to wait years after college to experience adult life before they get engaged.

Because there is too much promiscuity. That's the reason.

There's less promiscuity now than there was a generation ago.

This isn’t true at at all.

But it is true. Young people are having less sex overall. In 2021, over 20 percent of males under 35 reported not having had sex in the past year, and 19 percent of females of the same age group; in 2008, those groups' numbers were 8 and 7 percent, respectively.

Things like teen pregnancies are down when compared to the 80s and 90s. Among female teens, birth rates have gone down 77% in the past 30 years. In 1991, an estimated one-quarter of all 15-year-olds were to have a birth before they reached age 20. And this declined to 6% in 2021.