Elle Beau ❇︎
2 min readApr 6, 2024

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No, men are not "opting out" more, they are less likely to find a partner to marry - they actually want to get married more than women do. Haven't you kept up on all the uproar about how lonely young men are? On the other hand, women are starting to realize more and more that marriage takes a lot from them and doesn't give an equal amount in return. Sure, some young women still want to get married because humans are social animals and they've also been messaged their entire lives that they aren't whole people unless they do so, but a lot of younger women are listening to older women about what marriage in this culture actually offers them, and are saying "No thank you."

https://youthsense.com.au/youth-insights/why-young-women-are-less-interested-in-marriage-and-children-than-young-men/#:~:text=First%20off%20(and%20according%20to,females%20said%20they%20want%20to.

First off (and according to our research) it appears that young males are actually more inclined to have getting married and having kids on their life’s bucket list than women (right?! Who woulda thought). While 74% of males said they want to get married one day, just 67% of females said they want to. Just 6% of males said no to marriage compared to 10% of females, while 20% of males said they weren’t sure about getting married compared to 23% of females.

And no, the first study I linked you from U of Houston details not only remarriages, but women all over the world who don't want first marriages either. When you're in "hysterical" mode, you don't do a very good job of paying attention. You also don’t do a good job of looking at the difference between correlation and causation, which is a hallmark of the scientific method. I don’t have time to re-educate you on all of the social science implications of this stuff, but again — belligerently attacking women for daring to say something that hurts your feelings is not what an actual feminist does.

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Elle Beau ❇︎
Elle Beau ❇︎

Written by Elle Beau ❇︎

I'm a bitch, I'm a lover, I'm a child, I'm a mother, I'm a sinner, I'm a saint. I do not feel ashamed. I'm your hell, I'm your dream, I'm nothing in between.

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