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Re:All the Single Ladies – Men floundering, women most affected by dahwolf on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @05:57PM (#36318138)
You're right, it's a play on the meme: "man dead, woman most affected".

Popular culture has become structurally anti-male. The ease at which we're described as simplistic, violent, sexual addicts doesn't seem to surprise anyone anymore.

This article almost makes a humanitarian problem out of a luxury problem: highly educated women unable to find somebody even richer than them.

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Re:All the Single Ladies – Men floundering, women most affected by antisthenes on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @11:06PM (#36320917)
Also women with impossible standards (e.g. 6'+, $200k+/yearly, loves dogs, wants (or doesn't) kids, is single, from a good family, won't cheat, owns his own house, blue eyes, etc.) refusing to lower them in search of a partner well into their 30s, then wondering "where all the good men are".
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Re:All the Single Ladies – Men floundering, women most affected by ArcticLandfall on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @12:10AM (#36321335)
Bo Burnham's "Lower your expectations" is a hilarious comedy song covering this exact point. For both men and women.
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Re:All the Single Ladies – Men floundering, women most affected by steine65 on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @04:14PM (#36331911)
It was good, thanks! https://youtu.be/llGvsgN17CQ
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Re:All the Single Ladies – Men floundering, women most affected by apsurd on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @12:45AM (#36321544)
all 4 billion women want that laundry list of qualities?

that's silly to say isn't it, of course you didn't mean literally all women, but that's why i'm commenting - it's crazy to me how we choose to play other people's games. find other circles. lest you're attracted to who you're attracted... but then umm... so women shouldn't be?

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Re:All the Single Ladies – Men floundering, women most affected by LorenPechtel on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @11:50AM (#36327778)
Fundamentally, it's that women typically want a partner that's above them--but with society being basically equal now there is a dearth of such men. It's going to take a while to adjust to having to settle for someone who is simply your equal.
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Re:All the Single Ladies – Men floundering, women most affected by igetspam on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @11:44PM (#36336127)
Did you seriously include "won't cheat" or did you plant that there to see if people read this?
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