Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living at home

Re:Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living a... by username90 on Friday June 11, 2021 @06:37PM (#27479358)

You studying social subjects that almost only women study is the exception, you can afford to be picky about this. Lots of guys would love to have a woman who shares their interest, but since so few women study technical topics they have to settle with women they have little in common with. And at that point whether they studied some social topic or no topic and did other stuff isn't high up on the list.

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Re:Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living a... by NortySpock on Friday June 11, 2021 @07:56PM (#27479954)

"so few women study technical topics"

I don't even know what to say to this. Is [picks from list] speech pathologist, dental hygienist, nurse, payroll clerk or hairdresser NOT a job that involves a fair amount of knowledge, training, and skill?

Just because it's not EE or CS doesn't mean there isn't a wealth of technical and scientific understanding (or even just an understanding of the legal environment) going on behind the scenes of a profession.

So you're probably not going to find a girl who has exactly the same job as you and wants to date you -- but if you ask them to explain their profession to you, you might just learn there's a lot going on under the hood.

"they have to settle with women they have little in common with"

Again, this is just a lack of imagination. I studied a bit of chemistry, my wife studied a lot of chemistry, we appreciate that chemistry is cool. Just because I went with computers and she went with medicine doesn't mean we have "little in common"; we just find other topics to geek-out about.

"Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't." ― Bill Nye

[1] list was https://fourpillarfreedom.com/visualizing-u-s-occupational-e...

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Re:Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living a... by throwaway33432 on Friday June 11, 2021 @08:48PM (#27480279)

debt is likely acquired with the degree; fields that skew female are also low-paying.

that's basically it: debt is not attractive.

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Re:Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living a... by Mediterraneo10 on Friday June 11, 2021 @06:41PM (#27479401)

Thanks, that is some insight into why men who are primarily concerned with technical subjects would be unsatisfied with the dating market. However, I wouldn't claim that "almost only women" are concerned with the humanities subjects I mentioned above. Film criticism and scholarship on many branches of literature and music are still fields that draw either predominantly men, or have a pretty even gender balance.

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Re:Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living a... by username90 on Friday June 11, 2021 @06:48PM (#27479454)

If you take the subject and the adjacent subjects you get mostly women though, even if specific courses are more balanced. It is the same in technical courses, some of them like chemistry and biology have more even balance but overall there aren't a lot of women.

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Re:Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living a... by majormajor on Friday June 11, 2021 @06:54PM (#27479496)

You seem to have this assumption that the only expression and development of interests comes through taking courses. I have a degree in CS, yet care much more that my partner shares my non-technical interests than my technical ones, cause I can talk shop all day long at work already...

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Re:Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living a... by username90 on Friday June 11, 2021 @06:56PM (#27479511)

I responded to a guy who argued that he wouldn't date a girl without a similar degree to his own, I am arguing against that position not for it.

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Re:Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living a... by Mediterraneo10 on Friday June 11, 2021 @07:03PM (#27479563)

I didn’t actually argue that. The erudition I have always sought in dating or marriage material does not depend on the degree I have, and in fact my own degree is in a field different than the canon of art to which I mentioned above. But sure, having a degree of some sort does greatly boost the chances that one will have had access to an academic library (or awareness of alternatives like LibGen), and potentially made use of it for subjects beyond one’s own degree programme.

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Re:Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living a... by username90 on Friday June 11, 2021 @07:08PM (#27479591)

The average women has a degree, it doesn't say much about her at all.

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Re:Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living a... by Mediterraneo10 on Friday June 11, 2021 @07:13PM (#27479629)

The proportion of women with degrees differs from country to country, and often isn’t “the average woman” at all. And sure, having a degree is certainly no guarantee of erudition, but in most countries, women without a degree are even less likely to possess the kind of erudition I was talking about. To the point where a degree does function as a basic prerequisite.

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Re:Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living a... by username90 on Friday June 11, 2021 @07:42PM (#27479861)

My point is that when degrees are so easy to get that an average person has one then they don't have any meaning as a filter. There are plenty of reasons not to get one that aren't "I don't like learning" so it doesn't work as a filter in the other direction either.

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Re:Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living a... by majormajor on Friday June 11, 2021 @07:03PM (#27479556)

Well, no, they said "No woman would seem dating and marriage material to me if she weren’t similarly erudite and we would have some common ground in that respect" but being erudite in no way requires or is the same as having a degree. That's just one way of many to get exposed to things.

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