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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a male, in my mid-30s. I have no quarrel with unmarried , "professional" women. What are you running into, specifically? Maybe there is a generational issue?[/quote]

PP here,

I too came from a working-class background. I grew up in a small town in the south, went to mediocre K-12 schools and didn't graduate from college until recently (gradually worked my way through it over the years). And I just went to an average state school.

I make a modest living, working in IT. I often feel often feel like I am regarded dismissively by people in DC. So many people in this city came from well-off backgrounds, went to expensive, private K-12s and have degrees from prestigious schools, and are making six figures.

There is such a lack of perspective here. I[b] have found that many women are put-off by a man who they perceive as occupying a lower socioeconomic status than themselves. I'm probably going to move somewhere else, where people are more down-to-earth.
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I've honestly forgotten as why I started to post this, but there you are :)[/quote]

The anger I sometimes experience from men my own age, early 40s, is sort of them taking their revenge out on the women from their teens and 20s and 30s who wouldn't give them the time of day when they were younger and not financially successful. So, now when I meet men my age who are like me, self-made, never married, no kids, they seem to treat me as if I personally was the young rich snooty woman in his 20s who rejected them cruelly for not having anything. "HaHa! You didn't think I was good enough in my 20s without money. What makes you think I will want you now?" These men seem to be quite bitter.  [/quote]

Where are you encountering these men? Online dating, IRL?

Either way, I would just say to steer clear when you see the first sign of this kind of entitlement. [/quote]

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