If you could bring race into it somehow then yes the statement might seem more based in historical precedence, rather than some idealistic fantasy world of hyper diversity, assuming most unhappily married men are also white.
I don't really get why any of that matters though. Can't you just appreciate the sentiment regardless of how it is phrased? Seems like your trying to make it political when it just isn't.
Maybe you should think about who is actually making it political, i.e. the people trying to transform the phrase into something politically correct.
Idk man sounds like they’re just taking a phrase and phrasing it slightly differently so that it applies to more people. You’re the one who was offended by that
Just a side remark, but "most philosophers are white" should probably be "most philosophers you heard about"
It’s true that only a minority of philosophers are white, and people are far less likely to be aware of philosophers outside their culture.
But there are less aggressive ways to say it.
I felt that they offered a helpful correction
My intention was not to be aggressive at all, sorry!
That is wildly untrue. The research on whether men or women are more satisfied in their marriages shows that they have about the same levels of satisfaction.
For example: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jomf.12077
Not really sure why the demographics of philosophers effects the impact of the statement. Most philosophers are white, would it have been more impactful if the statement had brought race into it?