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Sexist much? Only women see their marital choices narrowing with age? Take a look at most guys as they age, not nearly as permanently attractive as they might think.
“Settle” as in settle down or settle for something less than your ideal as you’re just too pooped to keep flipping through the racks? I think women settle/down, if and when they do, when they realize every guy they date has some flaws (just as she does) but it’s the one whose flaws are most bearable who finally gets the marital vote. It’s the fatigue/burnout factor as much as the coup de foudre.
Dating is like shopping at Loehmann’s. You enter the marketplace fresh and optimistic, your heart pounding, certain there’s some stunning little number lurking amid all that lurid polyester. After years of looking, you get better at spotting cashmere and grabbing it. It’s the paucity of cashmere, so to speak, that makes it such a challenge.
Yup, that was a sexist thing to say.
On: The Mathematics of Marriage
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Wow. Do I get a crown and sash with that?
Now who’s buying into gender stereotypes?
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