Elle Beau ❇︎
2 min readApr 22, 2024

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🤣 You deciding that doesn't make it actually true. Nice try though... Let's now talk about reality:

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.

Guys like you pretending that most women want a 6/6/6 guy is a cop-out so that you don't have to deal with the fact that the actual problem is you.

There's a growing world-wide movement of women refusing to get married, or even have relationships with men because they overwhelmingly want an actual partner and have such a hard time finding one. The majority of women who have been married are not anxious to do it again. If they want to have a male companion, they want him to live in his own place so they can have some autonomy and not have to wash his underwear and clean up after him. In a bunch of US cities, young women now outearn their male peers and one can expect this to continue as more women (and fewer men) pursue higher education.

Making shit up and "deciding" it's correct because it feels good to you isn't a very good stratagem. Yet another nail in the coffin of "men are logical." 😸

Gerson found that when the demands of daily living and the organization of work make it hard to live out egalitarian ideals, men and women have different fallback positions. Of the young men who wanted egalitarian marriages, 60 percent said that if this was out of reach, they would choose some kind of modified male breadwinner marriage, in which they earned the bulk of family income and their partner took care of most family obligations. The reaction of young women, however, was strikingly different. Eighty percent of them told Gerson they would rather go it alone than be in a traditional or even a modified traditional marriage.

Coontz, Stephanie. Marriage, a History (p. 300). Penguin Publishing Group. 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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