RiverDad
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Re: Men: Would You Marry an American Woman?
What we're experiencing is not natural. My turn to laugh HA HA HA. Okay, done laughing. This social revolution is being driven and shaped by conscious decisions and informed by philosophy. What can be done, can be undone, or can be done in a different fashion.
As to Constitutionality, the Constitution is simply what judges say it is. Times changes and so do Constitutional issues.
History is chock full of societies which died. There is no WILL ADAPT in play here. Maybe we can adapt, maybe we can't. I doubt we can because we're not dealing with issues which are entirely social constructions. When the social constructions we concoct with our minds and philosophies get too far out of whack with human nature, then the house of cards either falls or has to be unbuilt/rebuilt.
We'll see if that was right. Will women adapt to preferring men who they don't admire if we continue to see the sex disparity in college admissions and subsequent careers? We already see from the social science literature that high earning women tend to divorce their lower earning husbands at a higher rate than what we see from control relationships. The power imbalance in those marriages leads to, generally speaking, women not being as satisfied with the marriage. This is female hypergamy. Wanting to marry up.
How's that old saying go? "Hey baby, you can have it all." Something like that. That's not likely to be true. There are always opportunity costs when we make choices. I can't see this being an exception.
True. But in the US, there's no way to change the natural progression that goes along with recognizing women as equal without the backwards steps of restricting us and our rights. Which would be completely unConstitutional.
What we're experiencing is not natural. My turn to laugh HA HA HA. Okay, done laughing. This social revolution is being driven and shaped by conscious decisions and informed by philosophy. What can be done, can be undone, or can be done in a different fashion.
As to Constitutionality, the Constitution is simply what judges say it is. Times changes and so do Constitutional issues.
So you cannot restrict women. Society has to adapt. Society and culture will adapt.
History is chock full of societies which died. There is no WILL ADAPT in play here. Maybe we can adapt, maybe we can't. I doubt we can because we're not dealing with issues which are entirely social constructions. When the social constructions we concoct with our minds and philosophies get too far out of whack with human nature, then the house of cards either falls or has to be unbuilt/rebuilt.
I only see it as was already posted by someone else in the thread...that men no longer have the same political and financial control over women. Who is to say that was ever 'right?'
We'll see if that was right. Will women adapt to preferring men who they don't admire if we continue to see the sex disparity in college admissions and subsequent careers? We already see from the social science literature that high earning women tend to divorce their lower earning husbands at a higher rate than what we see from control relationships. The power imbalance in those marriages leads to, generally speaking, women not being as satisfied with the marriage. This is female hypergamy. Wanting to marry up.
How's that old saying go? "Hey baby, you can have it all." Something like that. That's not likely to be true. There are always opportunity costs when we make choices. I can't see this being an exception.
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