Opinion | Why Aren’t More People Marrying? Ask Women What Dating Is Like.
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Harping on people to get married from up in the ivory tower fails to engage with reality in the dating trenches.
  • megopie@beehaw.org
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    8 months ago

    It’s really quite absurd how bad it is in DC. There are so many smart professional young woman here and for so many they’re met by a wall of suit wearing conservative lobbyists who think that all they need to do to “get a wife” is be marginally successful in work, “strong”, and not respectful, kind, intelligent or responsible.

    • dumples@kbin.social
      26·
      8 months ago

      I remember hearing all of the Trump appointees being so angry that no one in DC wanted to date or sleep with them. What did you expect to happen? Taking away women’s right isn’t the turn on you think it is

      • LoamImprovement@beehaw.org
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        8 months ago

        Wait, you’re telling me women who work in politics aren’t head-over-heels for the idea of giving up their careers to…

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        …cook, clean, and rear children for men who think of them exclusively as outlets? Quelle fucking surprise!