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Please read the whole thing!As Valentine’s Day 2009 arrives, the desperate real-estate salesmen of Glengarry Glen Ross are an apt metaphor for the romantic plight of our age. Plenty of prospects out there -- there are some 24 million women ages 18-29 in the United States -- but guys can't seem to close the deal: 65 percent of those women have never married. The median age at first marriage for women, which was 20 in 1960, is now at an all-time high of 25.3, and spinsterhood is an increasingly common fate. Thirteen percent of women 40-44 have never married, reflecting about a one-third rise since 1980 in the likelihood of being an old maid, a percentage that can be expected to increase given the current low marriage rates for young women. . . .
UPDATE: Via electronic communication, G2 provides this intelligence from the front lines of the War of the Sexes, as a lovelorn young hottie confides:
The concept of "wooing" a girl is, if not entirely unheard of, at least unpracticed among practically every man I know. Still, I think it's largely the woman's fault. I was having this conversation with a girlfriend yesterday, and I realized that the once-masculine role of putting a woman on a pedestal, sweeping her off her feet, etc. has been assumed by females. Nearly every girl I know in a relationship or pseudo-relationship has been the one doing the wooing. She usually idolizes the man - and worse than that, lets him know it.Things are getting desperate out there, you see.
UPDATE II: Another young lady writes:
Here's the real problem: men. Good luck to all the 18-to-29-year-old women out there trying to find a man who a) is not on drugs, b) is not in jail, c) is consistently employed and d) actually wants to get married and settle down someday. Apparently in this generation there are enough loose women that the men have realized they can get all the benefits of marriage without making the commitment. As the old adage goes, why work and buy the cow when you can get the milk for free? With that kind of a market, the cows who won't give away milk for free tend to have a tougher time.Yes, there does seem to be too much surplus milk on the market nowadays.
Better yet, read this guys blog.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nomarriage.com/
He tells it why NOT to marry a Western woman. Makes a pretty convincing case, too.
Sorry for a bit of vulgarity here, but it has to be stated plainly: I think women have grown a pair, and of course if you've seen Ace Ventura, Pet Detective, you know what a horrific effect that can have on men.
ReplyDeleteNow on the part of men, there are a few of us women out here who don't want to be thought of as a potential "portfoglio diversification."
And, in the soon to be former land of milk and honey, we can support ourselves and don't need to play wife, mommy and bread winner too.
Being a woman is too much fun to trade it for manhood.
Mary