A heartwarming story for the holidays. Tales of woe and perfidy like this one abound. The sexual and marital markets are two way streets. It takes two to tango. If our culture and society degrade or flourish, it will be because men AND women contributed in their particular ways. Ignore this lesson to polish the … Read more
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Reports coming in from the field suggest a new form of marriage is appearing on the scene that capitalizes on late stage societal sanction of divorce theft. From Days of Broken Arrows, I’m starting to notice a trend of older thirtysomething women marrying older guys, having a kid, and then almost immediately divorcing the guy. … Read more
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A hot if somewhat mannish-looking female teacher is in court on charges of “raping” one of her students during their months-long sexual adventure. A teacher is accused of sodomizing a middle school student and raping him during their alleged months-long sexual relationship. Lindsey Jarvis, 27, pleaded not guilty to two counts of rape at the … Read more
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Posted in Alpha, Beta, Marriage Is For Chumps on Jun 1st, 2017
Ok, now same question, but with the roles reversed: the groom dragging the reluctant bride by her dress collar to the altar.
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Commenter HEM writes that men who get married but then don’t justify the marriage with kids are beta. 1) alphas don’t have big weddings. Every extravagant, expensive wedding (and cake with figurines) is a chick’s doing with her beta’s compliance. An alpha might go along with a big wedding if it’s no skin off his … Read more
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Via Marginal Autism, We show that promotions to top jobs dramatically increase women’s probability of divorce, but do not affect men’s marriages. This effect is causally estimated for top jobs in the political sector, where close electoral results deliver exogenous variation in promotions across job candidates. Descriptive evidence from job promotions to the position of … Read more
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Commenter Yup wants us to notice something very telling about Trump’s wives. Trump’s had 3 wives. 1st wife: 14 years 2nd wife: 4 years 3rd wife: 11 years and counting. Guess which wife was American. I’ll take “4 years” for $5.5 billion, Alex.
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Charles Darwin – yes, that guy – once drew up a pro and con list for getting married. His list is reprinted here, in readable format. The standard Chateau view of marriage is that it is a raw deal for individual American men, as currently constituted, (it wasn’t always thus). However, there are good reasons … Read more
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Executive Summary: There’s a tight link between female fertility and divorce. Do women initiate the majority of divorces because men are innately “badder” than wives? Or, is it more likely something else which motivates wives — something intrinsic to the demands of their female desires — to push for marital dissolution at greater rates than … Read more
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Courtesy of commenter mendozatorres, a quote from Mary Haweis, authoress, who sounds spookily prescient about our current state of marriage as she reminds her readers that marriage sans concessions is a boon for women and a raw deal for men. Alas, when people complain of men not marrying (even they who are able), they forget … Read more
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