Forbes published and then withdrew an article titled Don’t Marry Career Women. Seriously. No hoax. Can you believe it? Egad.
Here is the list of the nine reasons why men should avoid marrying career women:
- You are less likely to get married to her.
- If you do marry, you are more likely to get divorced.
- She is more likely to cheat on you.
- You are much less likely to have kids.
- If you do have kids, your wife is more likely to be unhappy.
- Your house will be dirtier.
- You’ll be unhappy if she makes more than you.
- She will be unhappy if she makes more than you.
- You are more likely to fall ill.
Via Erin Caldwell via Boing Boing via baby221 via agreatnotion.
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See? All your comments are gone again. Have you not beaten the comment archiver yet?
I didn’t see any comments here before your’s above. Very odd. Very odd. Strange. Well, I guess you can try or try not. I wonder. I don’t censor or edit.
I’ll leave a comment.
In my experience a non-career woman will spend your money like it’s no big deal, learns to depend on men for support and may just leave you if she meets someone with more $$$ than you (why not!?!), and resents the fact that she doesn’t measure up to your education/career/worldliness/etc…
So just be gay. Safest bet. Avoid women entirely. ;-)
Becoming gay is no easier… the roles become the same except instead of a beautiful, lovely rose of a woman who drives me crazy in love, in lust, in desire, and with her beauty, I get a big, sweaty, hairy person who will end up exhibiting the same sort of neuroses, insecurities, resentment, and might very well…
“will spend your money like it’s no big deal, learns to depend on men for support and may just leave you if [HE] meets someone with more $$$ than you (why not!?!), and resents the fact that [HE} doesn’t measure up to your education/career/worldliness/etc…”
I think single, bachelor, and “just dating around” might be the perfect solution as a long-term strategy.
I am jumping to this part of the thread and ignoring the substance of the actual article here simply b.c of this line:
“I think single, bachelor, and “just dating around” might be the perfect solution as a long-term strategy.”
This fear driven basis for forming, unforming, or never forming relationships will (sadly) end fairly awkwardly and lonely for anyone who follows such advice. Man may have all his riches, his wealth and his life’s estate by times end, but he will have missed out on the greatest richness life has to offer: love. Therefore, such a man will die among strangers, who care little if anything for him and will take little if any effort to care and nurture him in his greatest time of need.
So, at some point, when men realize they have never evolved beyond their sophomoric notions of love and managed to avoid this everlasting pain which they profess only occurs after forming a lasting, committed relationship with a woman, will they look back and say, I have no regrets? Or will they say, “my God, I wish I had more faith in my judgment, in my fellow man (or more specifically, woman). I wish I had married my sweetheart despite my fears of rejection and emasculation.” Or will he say, “yes, dying here alone, on the floor of this nursing home, drooling, cold and half hanging out of this nursing gown was infinitely better then sharing my last moments with my family around me.”?
It is a silly notion really. But to me the answer is simple. Avoiding things we believe are risky b/c we have assessed them (accurately) to be a risky and adverse proposition is logical. Avoidance based purely upon fear, and an irrational one at that, is remarkably unevolved. Welcoming love into your life is relatively easy. Maintaining it, more difficult. Letting it go, painful. But throughout that progression, we learn, we grow, we evolve, and take from that love the gift of a better self which we can turn around and offer to someone who can more fully appreciate it. Where’s the risk? Why the fear here?