Elle Beau ❇︎
1 min readAug 4, 2023

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Yes, but it's not saying she wants that - because no feminist wants a patriarch of any sort. She's further making her point that if you want to purport to be a so-called patriarch then you don't get to just pick which parts of that to take on.

I don't know the stats for the UK, but in the US, 20% of women make more than their male partners and 30% make the same amount. In 20 US cities, young women as a whole outearn their male peers. Acting like most women, particularly most feminists, want a man to bankroll their lives is just clinging to old and outdated stories - ones that have been on the decline for many decades.

A relentless focus on “mating value,” narrowly conceived, also contrasts with an analysis of several data sets reporting what characteristics men and women find more and less important in a partner. These show that for the past seventy-five years, across a number of different countries, the most important attributes in a long-term partner for both women and men have nothing to do with youthful fertility traded for resources.

Fine, Cordelia. Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society (p. 75). W. W. Norton & Company. Kindle Edition.

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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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