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Stuck in the Single Life? Class Could Be a FactorPosted on Jan 24, 2007Read around the cliches about single women and cats etc. and find in this NYT story an interesting window into how shifting social values and socioeconomic stratification contribute to a marriage “happiness gap” for many Americans without college educations.
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By Outraged, January 26, 2007 at 12:47 am #
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This article is full of assumptions, speculation and of course the good ol’ pseudoscience of psychology. To say that 51% of women and about half of all men “find” themselves single is ignorant. People don’t “find” themselves single anymore than they “find” themselves married! (Well, at least let’s hope not.) THEY CHOOSE IT! The article also makes the ridiculous assumption that going to college somehow qualifies you as a bonafide “educated person”. (That must be why we’re always asking those 24yr olds for advice.) I guess it just goes to show you where the “real” brains are after all and apparently only about half of us have them.
Report thisBy call me stupid but i think it's better now, January 25, 2007 at 3:29 am #
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that two people are more likely to choose each other for what they have in common rather than for how easy the female is to dominate and ‘protect’. But there’s no such thing as classism in love. If it involves classism, then it’s more like an emotionally-charged business transaction. Yuck.
Report thisBy Quy Tran, January 24, 2007 at 11:31 pm #
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Not a big deal; how’s about “papa Cheney” daughter ? She’s still pregnant without getting marriage. It’s a big honor for “papa” family isn’t ?
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