Aug 09 2006
petite pool
Third in a growing series of Wednesday posts on “why wendy’s single“.
Reason # 3: Petite pool
How many men local American men over 35 are married? Call me an old fashioned hetero-gal, but, married men are not part of the potential dating pool. In an article that details male, rahter than relationship oriented, perspectives the New York Times calls out that the number of unmarried men has increased:
In 1980, only 6 percent of men in their early 40’s at all levels of education and 5 percent of women in their early 40’s had never married. By 2004, this portion had increased to 16.5 percent of men and about 12.5 percent of women.
A quarter-century ago, when fewer women went to college, there was a plentiful supply of potential mates for men who had only a high school diploma. Even men who dropped out of high school could get blue-collar jobs paying decent wages and could expect to find, and support, a wife.
Apparantly female education and financial independence has undermined the male’s ability to find a wife. A possible implicit assumption for most, not all, of the article is that it is the mans job to find a wife and that Naughty independent, intelligent women make this task more difficult. Shocking! This introduces another significant wendy-dating-pool-size-constrainer, whether men consider women as people or servants. Twisty bought my attention to this rather disturbing book, reviewed in the Independent. If America has a surfice of men like that book’s author this will reduce my potential dating pool. Being treated like a person is one of my minumum date-requirements, I do so hate it when I get mistaken for a programmable fleshy robot, don’t you?
Previously established reasons:
petite pool
