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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s cultural. The culture out there is telling women that they are so amazing and can do it all, which results in them not wanting to settle at all for someone beneath them (whether it be job wise, looks wise, personality wise). Who does? But many of these women’s standards are unrealistic bc there is a super small percentage of men that are equal to them, and they are all competing against each other. If they date someone who is not as great as them, It also causes them to think, why should I sacrifice (a,b,c) for this person. They are just ok. I should wait it out or just be single. Or they stay in these relationships and get mad bc their bfs are not picking up the slack. The guy is automatically on the out list if they are not contributing equally in some way. The bottom line is everyone is uber selfish and wants to put themselves first. Good marriages are compromises of each partner sacrificing at different points in the marriage. That’s what love is- having to sacrifice and take up your partners burden at different points. But finding a good man or women who won’t take advantage of this is hard. Both women and men don’t want to compromise nowadays, because they feel “taken advantages of”, hence women being “done” with marriage. [/quote]

Given that women are the most taken advantage of, what you are describing is totally rational. Also research tends to show that single women are happy, so the paternalistic notion that they are being somehow tricked into spinsterhood by “the culture” is a transparently false cope by men who are desperate to deny that on the whole, marriage age motherhood do not benefit women with their own economic power. [/quote]

I assume you mean Irrational.

I found that post very irrational and extremely contradictory. [/quote]

right - the rational thing is women deciding that they don’t want to settle. [/quote]

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