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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have written this before several times on DCUM...DC is a nightmare for professional women.  Almost all of my female friends who remained in DC (I attended law school there) have not gotten married or even paired up.  I think there are too few professional men in DC and/or the men in DC are intimated by professional women.  I don't know what it is but honestly, if you are serious about getting married and having children, you need to get out of Dodge (DC) and move to a nice smaller city somewhere else..Maybe Indianapolis; maybe Maine; anywhere but DC where women's love lives go to die. [/quote]

while the ratio skews in favor of guys - this is complete crap. did you not read what i just wrote above?

most men DO NOT CARE and ARE NOT intimidated by what women do for a living.

However most women do not want to marry down.

As women reach parity more and more with men, they chase men at their level or higher - however these men do not have the same constraints - they pick from a much larger pool of women and do not restrict themselves to women that match their resume or higher like women do.

This is why you get an imbalance. If women want equality with guys (a laudable goal), then they should act like guys do in dating when it comes to dating/marrying up or down the class scale (which they wont nearly as much as a guy will). [/quote]

+1M

I'm a guy, make low six figures, but am perfectly "successful" and married a woman who earns 2-3x what I do.  She was willing to "marry down", but she has many single friends who are in her income/prestige bracket and cannot find anyone, for exactly this reason.  She has several who, like her, were open to someone who didn't necessarily make as much $$$$ or have quite the prestige, and found [b]good people[/b] for partners (rather than resumes) and are very happily married, including one lesbian couple.  My wife has more than once remarked that my job is in some respects more demanding than hers, at least time-wise, though this varies.  It was important to her that I had my act together more than the actual income.

The other women blame it all on "men don't want educated women", and my wife agrees with them to some extent - I'm sure some men (not particularly desirable men) don't have the confidence/balls to be with a woman who is their peer in terms of achievement - but there are plenty of us who are.  [/quote]

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