Marrying Up and Marrying Down
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Marrying Up and Marrying Down
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#2This entire article is laughable. Back when I was in the dating pool, I encountered a couple of women that had this mentality that they would be dating down because I don't have a degree. Unbeknownst to them, I commanded a six figure salary and it was I who would be dating down had I stuck with them and their poor worldview. This mentality needs to just stop though, the idea of "dating down" or "dating up" is just nonsense.
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#3This is grossly misogynistic and insulting. It's the same old idea that women "just want to settle down and find a nice man" dressed up with some graphs. The author has even managed to make it about men in the end.
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#4This entire article is laughable. Back when I was in the dating pool, I encountered a couple of women that had this mentality that they would be dating down because I don't have a degree. Unbeknownst to them, I commanded a six figure salary and it was I who would be dating down had I stuck with them and their poor worldview. This mentality needs to just stop though, the idea of "dating down" or "dating up" is just no…
Education is just a proxy for wealth, just like extravagant vacation pictures on Instagram and nice cars.
Six figure salary seems "meh" when compared to Instagram which keeps showing women 3 figure millionaires and their daily routines in their mansions.
I don't like any of this, but that's how humans are and that's the world we live in.
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#5The article asserts conclusions without demonstrating that alternative conclusions are not equally likely. One example: educated women’s uneducated husbands command higher salaries. Is it that they married someone commanding a higher salary, or did their husband secure a higher salary through their wife’s encouragement, connections, intellect, higher SES (as associated with degree attainment), etc?
And of course the assumption ringing throughout this and quite a lot of marital research that people marry for the sake of being married rather than as a result of mate selection (eg, in suggesting those thirty percent of educated women just don’t have interest in marriage as a whole rather than lacking access to preferable mates).