pErvinalia wrote:Forty Two wrote:Scot Dutchy wrote:I am not scorning or making any negative references to Slovenia. Of course men are as bad.
If she was rich why did Melania marry Trump?
Women tend to want to "marry up" or "marry well."
In your long experience of being a woman?
Maybe. How would I know? The notion that we "feel like a woman" and therefore are that gender presupposes that we know what another gender feels like. If they can do it, why can't I? I.e. if you allow for people to "feel like a woman" when they are biologically male, then why would you not extend the same courtesy to someone who knows how women feel?
Also, I might be a woman, for all you or I know, since gender is divorced from sex, and we can be both trans and gender fluid. I could actually be a woman, and just think I'm a man because of the conditioning meted out upon me by our patriarchal culture.
Also, by the way, one need not be a woman or a man to understand how people behave and what they say they like. The whole notion of the dearth of marriageable men for women with good jobs and college educations is based on the notion that women marry men who are at least their "equal" in terms of education and earning power/career. It is generally understood that men will tend to marry women irrespective of their education and earning power, based on other factors, and that women tend to marry men who they deem to be their educational and career equals. A hot guy with no job might be a fling or a side-fuck, but isn't going to be a husband, statistically speaking. A hot girl, however, with nothing else to offer, is quite often chosen by a successful man. Men tend not need a woman to be their intellectual or economic equal, whereas women tend to want that. Not based on me being a woman, but based on listening to what they say.
“When I was in college, I took a terrorism class. ... The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said ‘Al Qaeda’ his shoulders went up, But you know, it is that you don’t say ‘America’ with an intensity, you don’t say ‘England’ with the intensity. You don’t say ‘the army’ with the intensity,” she continued. “... But you say these names [Al Qaeda] because you want that word to carry weight. You want it to be something.” - Ilhan Omar
