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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The real problem is that what makes a man appealing to a woman, on average, and what makes a woman appealing to a man, on average, is not symmetric.

For men, career success is strongly appealing to potential mates, so their prospects in the dating market improve as they succeed professionally.  Often very, very substantially.

Many successful women see this, and expect a similar thing to occur for them.  But men don't find professional success in a mate nearly as important a consideration as most women do, so there is often a gap between how a successful woman expects the dating market to react to her success, and how it actually does.

This is often misattributed to men being "threatened" by successful women or being a lawyer as the "kiss of death." Of course some men react in this way, but the real driver is the fact that career success (or lack thereof) is a very marginal consideration in mate selection for most men.   [/quote]

the wisdom is strong in this one.[/quote]

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