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Doesn't the rate of birth defects start to rise quickly as the man ages into their 30s?
My understanding: Yes, older men do see some increase in things like that. But it is a much bigger problem in women, for a long list of reasons. For example, women are born with all the eggs they will ever have. Sperm is produced "fresh." Also, the woman is the incubator.
> Because here’s the thing about your 20s. They are the time to work. The very, very best time in your life to work your ass off and create an exponential snowball of money, skills, and friendships. Your brain will never be more sponge-like and inexhaustible. You will never feel more motivated and less cynical than you do now. And you will never have another decade of pre-childraising freedom in your life. Exactly, s…
If you are woman and want kids, biologically speaking, your twenties are the best time to make that happen. He talks about "These days, kids tend to happen in your thirties." That tends to work fine if you are male. If you are female, it gets vastly more complicated to put off kids until after age thirty. I have to wonder how old his wife was when they started having kids. Most hetero relationships tend to be older m…
http://www.vice.com/read/youre-single-because-there-arent-en...
If you are woman and want kids, biologically speaking, your twenties are the best time to make that happen. He talks about "These days, kids tend to happen in your thirties." That tends to work fine if you are male. If you are female, it gets vastly more complicated to put off kids until after age thirty. I have to wonder how old his wife was when they started having kids. Most hetero relationships tend to be older m…
It's actually sadly even worse for women for another reason - they cannot date "down" for natural psychological reasons and the pool of "marriageable" men is shrinking due to less men getting education (which is perceived as "high-status" regardless of income, unless the latter is unusually high): http://www.vice.com/read/youre-single-because-there-arent-en...
Women do face actual challenges different from men in trying to figure out how to balance work and personal life and so on, but ...it's complicated and ....I have something else I really need to work on right now.
Ciao.
Spending-wise? No idea. But I'd recommend trying not to be too put off on the "work hard" advice, you probably already work hard and will get more out of the "spend carefully" side of the savings equation.
Life isn't a code review. Even if you think something is 99% wrong, it might still be 1% right. And if that 1% can get you retired a decade earlier, I'd give it some serious thought and just ignore what you think is wrong.
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It's actually sadly even worse for women for another reason - they cannot date "down" for natural psychological reasons and the pool of "marriageable" men is shrinking due to less men getting education (which is perceived as "high-status" regardless of income, unless the latter is unusually high): http://www.vice.com/read/youre-single-because-there-arent-en...
Eh, I don't really have time at the moment to get into why I disagree that women "can't" date down, but I saw that article and this was what I said: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10299641 Women do face actual challenges different from men in trying to figure out how to balance work and personal life and so on, but ...it's complicated and ....I have something else I really need to work on right now. Ciao.
> Most women still want men who are their equal or superior in terms of career success and income, as the article makes clear.
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Eh, I don't really have time at the moment to get into why I disagree that women "can't" date down, but I saw that article and this was what I said: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10299641 Women do face actual challenges different from men in trying to figure out how to balance work and personal life and so on, but ...it's complicated and ....I have something else I really need to work on right now. Ciao.
As you said in your post: > Most women still want men who are their equal or superior in terms of career success and income, as the article makes clear.
I don't disagree that most women will not marry down. That doesn't mean they cannot marry down.
:-)