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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t buy that women who have never married are focusing on the “unpaid labor” aspect. That’s more of an issue that arises in marriage later on, after kids arrive. I think the likelier explanations are increased working areas, fewer social interactions generally (we see this in studies of Americans having fewer and fewer friendships, some of which would of course lead to romance), economic instability and fewer college educated, emotionally stable and well paid eligible men.  More than ever, women are looking for income and education in men.[/quote]
You don’t think young women grow up in this dynamic? Seeing their working mom slave away while dad does $hit all sitting on the couch? Gmafb. You are not giving women enough credit here. Are you a man?[/quote]

I’m a woman of a young adult daughter. She and girlfriends absolutely want marriage but they have high standards. They want smart, ambitious, college educated. Guys like that have no problem finding women but [b]there are more women on that category than men[/b].[/quote]
ie, women have stepped up their game, but men have not.  It's why we have incels.[/quote]

As a mom also of sons - how do we fix this?[/quote]

It is true that more women to go college than men but it isn't true that more women go to top schools in top majors then go to top jobs then men.

I live in Boston, which has way more women college students and grads than men but it's flipped when you actually see it on a major and then firm or (in medicine, specialty) basis.

to mom of sons, my observation in Boston:

have your sons go to a strong school, get on a challenging work out regimen, get their nutrition right so they are well above median height, make sure they are doing strong internships and majors that lead to strong employment outcomes which lead to the remuneration to live comfortably in neighborhoods with high concentrations of eligible women (i.e. it's a lot easier to date when you live comfortably in a nice walkable neighborhood).
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I’m sorry…but nutrition won’t get your kids above median height if you have two short parents…certainly not well above median height.

Now, malnourishment can kill a growth trajectory…but I doubt anyone on DCUM is malnourishing their kids.

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