Quote: (02-25-2012 04:28 PM)Nonpareil Wrote:
Women who date doctors aren't attracted to the doctors for the nobility of their job, their intelligence or even the money; those help, but what they're really attracted to is the idea of rubbing their friends noses in the fact that her boyfriend is a doctor...totally forgetting that in addition to being a very demanding profession, tons and tons of other women out there get out of bed every day in hopes of landing a doctor. I would definitely not be getting married if I was a doctor (but then again, I think to be a doctor you have to be a sort of do-what-society-demands type).
I said almost exactly this to my date last night. We got to talking about height and dating, and said how I was talking to some girl who insisted on men 6'0 or better. And she was 5'3"! I explained to my date that it's not really about the guy being taller than her - otherwise you'd see short girls dating short guys much more consistently. It's about proving that you're cute by snagging a tall man. You won over a high status guy, which really means a guy who has things associated with high status, like height and money. Therefore you, the girl, must be high status too. And now the jackpot is showing him off to your friends as proof that you are, in fact, superior to them.
The 5'3" girl is actually still trying to get with a 6'4" guy I know, who banged her but would never commit. Bitter, and still trying. Ironically, the 5'3" girl, when I asked her why she said she'd never date a warehouse worker, she said, "can you imagine telling your friends that your husband works in a warehouse?"
Women aren't out to impress men. They're out to impress other women. And they can be totally heartless about it.