thebitterbabe

never married, over forty, a little bitter
April 20, 2014

excuses

http://nycyclist.kinja.com/men-stop-using-this-excuse-for-why-you-dont-date-wome-1489185452

Sorry, bro, but you’re running out of excuses for your ageist misogyny. If fertility issues and birth defects were that much of a concern for your family planning, you would have discovered early on in your Google search that your biological clock is ticking, too.

Furthermore, if society were as hung up on avoiding infertility and birth defects as it claims to be, there would be just as much of an uproar over men delaying parenthood as there is for women. But alas, we’re so accustomed to holding women responsible for all aspects of family planning that there’s no room for new information challenging our conventional wisdom.

There are a whole host of reasons men may seek to settle down with significantly younger women: being insecure, Peter Pan Syndrome, wanting someone who’s easier to control, being disgusted by signs of aging that you yourself have…

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April 20, 2014

the browsers

For once, men are told that they can be too picky (although admittedly the writer makes the single life sound a bit enviable):

http://www.jcoach.com/2011/01/too-old-to-play/

The time you’re wasting now chasing women beyond your reach and dreaming of the perfect woman who fulfills every single criteria you’ve fantasized about is precious time you could be using to build a family with a great women…NOW. No, no, no I’m not telling you to marry a woman who you aren’t attracted to and have absolutely no connection with. Seriously, you mean to tell me that you haven’t been attracted to any of the women you dated in the last few years (if that’s the case you might have bigger issues to deal with)? But she didn’t exactly fit what you feel you need…something just wasn’t there…I know the drill.

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