Nature is a bitch, and as much as we try to "change" our ways, one cannot deny biology and truth. Below is a quote from the article:
"Recent debates about dating and sex have been seriously lacking in data. We’ve argued about hookup culture and whether it brought the death of monogamy and marriage, and about whether feminism and sexual liberation—giving women control over their reproductive health and sexual expression, while freeing them from the confines of a virgin ideal—could be considered the cause. But we’ve never really looked hard at the demographics—which may provide a far better, more concrete answer."
Whether the author likes it or not, women will never be freed from the virgin ideal. Cultures for thousands of years have valued beauty, youth, health, and virginity in women. Similar to how age, experience, status, and resources are valued in a man. As much as the author wants to blame men for this (always the easy one for SJW's), the numbers don't lie.
In 1950, only 6.2% of the population 25 and older were college educated, with men at 7.3% and women at 5.2% roughly. The vast majority of the population had to work, and both sexes were expected to be married between 18-24, especially women. Dalrock had a great article explaining the changes in age of first marriage by women, which was around 18-19 in the 1950's and is around 26-27 today. For women, when their peers are getting married around 18, they are actively seeking a husband and will do the same for the sake of being a part of the community and culture.
Fast forward fifty years (2000), where 24.4% of the population 25 and older were college educated, with men representing 26.1% and women at 22.8%. This doesn't even factor the 21% that completed some college but no degree, and I'm sure these numbers are much higher in 2015.
I'd imagine that parents back in the day intended on their daughters finding their potential husbands in university, with the fact that they had a degree and were "educated" being a bonus. How long it took to destroy this intention is uncertain, but that flat out isn't the case today (graduated college recently). Marriage is the last thing on men and women's minds in college, where we just want to party and fuck.
What did our culture expect when we gave 18 year olds unlimited freedom? They were going to go to Church every Sunday, abstain from alcohol, study hard, and abstain from sex until marriage? Put 18-22 year olds in this environment and it naturally turns into a fuck-fest, which I and others can hardly complain about.
The author writes and complains in classic female form, where she addresses her problems and wishes men would just get more degrees and society and the economy are to blame. But she would never in a million years give up the unrestrained freedom women enjoy today, which is a far greater factor in declining marriage rates than men being intimidated by women with garbage degrees in gender studies.
Horse has already left the barn and women will continue to bitch about this as more and more men will say no to marrying a 30 year old carousel rider. Enjoy that romantic purgatory in NYC.
Sources- census
"Recent debates about dating and sex have been seriously lacking in data. We’ve argued about hookup culture and whether it brought the death of monogamy and marriage, and about whether feminism and sexual liberation—giving women control over their reproductive health and sexual expression, while freeing them from the confines of a virgin ideal—could be considered the cause. But we’ve never really looked hard at the demographics—which may provide a far better, more concrete answer."
Whether the author likes it or not, women will never be freed from the virgin ideal. Cultures for thousands of years have valued beauty, youth, health, and virginity in women. Similar to how age, experience, status, and resources are valued in a man. As much as the author wants to blame men for this (always the easy one for SJW's), the numbers don't lie.
In 1950, only 6.2% of the population 25 and older were college educated, with men at 7.3% and women at 5.2% roughly. The vast majority of the population had to work, and both sexes were expected to be married between 18-24, especially women. Dalrock had a great article explaining the changes in age of first marriage by women, which was around 18-19 in the 1950's and is around 26-27 today. For women, when their peers are getting married around 18, they are actively seeking a husband and will do the same for the sake of being a part of the community and culture.
Fast forward fifty years (2000), where 24.4% of the population 25 and older were college educated, with men representing 26.1% and women at 22.8%. This doesn't even factor the 21% that completed some college but no degree, and I'm sure these numbers are much higher in 2015.
I'd imagine that parents back in the day intended on their daughters finding their potential husbands in university, with the fact that they had a degree and were "educated" being a bonus. How long it took to destroy this intention is uncertain, but that flat out isn't the case today (graduated college recently). Marriage is the last thing on men and women's minds in college, where we just want to party and fuck.
What did our culture expect when we gave 18 year olds unlimited freedom? They were going to go to Church every Sunday, abstain from alcohol, study hard, and abstain from sex until marriage? Put 18-22 year olds in this environment and it naturally turns into a fuck-fest, which I and others can hardly complain about.
The author writes and complains in classic female form, where she addresses her problems and wishes men would just get more degrees and society and the economy are to blame. But she would never in a million years give up the unrestrained freedom women enjoy today, which is a far greater factor in declining marriage rates than men being intimidated by women with garbage degrees in gender studies.
Horse has already left the barn and women will continue to bitch about this as more and more men will say no to marrying a 30 year old carousel rider. Enjoy that romantic purgatory in NYC.
Sources- census