I like to think of myself as a 70% guy. I am Caucasian. I voted for Clinton and Biden. I do sometimes scream at the TV, but I also wash dishes. As it happens I did impregnate my wife a couple times, but I am a father to my children because I spend time with them. I do make more than 65k but this is DC and I don't consider that to be 70% income around here. I am not a unicorn - the other dads in the neighborhood are just like me in every way I've listed here. |
I actually wasn't using any particular woman in the example. Sperm bank offers donors, not fathers. A sperm bank won't take your children to the doctor or sports practices, won't guide them, won't feed them or read stories or put them to bed. Fatherlessness has bad effects that are well documented. I don't know where you find these losers. I live in a perfectly average suburban neighborhood and I see fathers with their children all around all the time. Perfectly average men who are involved with their children. Some may even have voted for Trump! They are not in 3%, no. But they give more than a shot of sperm to their children . |
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Rarely see any dads with toddlers on my neighborhood playground. Those who do come are usually divorced |
What % is your wife? |
Neither will many men. A sperm donor also won’t expect you to do their housework, have sex with them, and be entitled to 50% of your assets in exchange for their better-than-70% genetic material. I totally understand why people make the call they do. I married a top 3% guy and absolutely do not think women should settle. |
Well, if women shouldn’t settle for anything less than a top 3% man, that’s going to leave a lot of unsatisfied women out there. I guarantee you not all are going to want to go with a sperm donor and some will try to steal away your top 3% husband. How do you feel about that? |
I feel that if my husband is unfaithful that has to do with my husband, not some anonymous woman. I don’t think women should settle for bad marriages, or men who don’t pull their weight, and trying to scare me with the idea that I should want them to do so otherwise they’ll try to steal my husband is hilarious. Yes, some women will settle. But the more who don’t, the better for society as a whole. |
Ah yes, what societies have not thrived with an excess number of single men who have no access to women or the possibility to create a family! There will definitely not exist an increased amount of violence and aggression, nor a population of young women at risk for sexual violence. |
Monogamous marriages are the bedrock of peaceful societies. In fact, the reason why polygamy was so wildly popular in ancient regimes was precisely because huge numbers of young men with no “genetic capital” or wealth died in wars. |
We have never yet had a society where access for marriage for men was determined as a meritocracy based on an assessment of their suitability as a parent, partner and provider. As others have pointed out we have historically used marriage as a way to ensure low-quality men have access to women since long term singlehood meant no children and likely destitution for women. Now women can— and should— demand more. Society will benefit when men have to step up and be equal partners and parents and not just (when women are lucky) a paycheck. |
By the way “marry the men so they don’t become rapists” is a great argument for not perpetuating the genes of these men. |
No, it’s much worse than that: societies in which many young men have no access to women *while a few men have all women* almost immediately fall collapse in violence. The first people to get murdered are the top 3% of men, the women in their patronage suffer a fate far worse. The idea that women would be better off five-to-one man only requires a brief look at the total failure of the FLDS to cure you of the notion. |
They have plenty of “access” to women. They can compete in the marketplace of partners. They can pay surrogates and have families. They can adopt the many children in foster care. The idea that women “owe” these unsuitable men something in order to avoid sexual violence is, again, not a good case to perpetuate these genes. |
Thank you so much. Yes. |