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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Yes, Men Do Leave the Market
Now for whatever reason it may be, dance tends to attract more women than men and over the years, I've of course befriended several female students. They vary in ages anywhere from 24 to 60, but the one common trait they have is they are typically (though not always) single. And while not always, most of them took dance class half incented to perhaps find a guy.
But what is becoming a more frequent phenomenon is a question these girls ask;
"Where are all the guys?"
I never paid much attention to this, as it has always been the case that men just eschew dance classes, but it wasn't until an older dance student of mine perhaps refined the question a bit and made it more pointed. It wasn't so much "Where are all the guys," as much as it was;
"I just get the feeling there aren't any men anymore. Not just in dance class, but where are all the men from all the various social activities? They make up half the population, but I can't find any single guys to date. They can't all be married, even my female friends are running into this mysterious disappearance of men. Do they like stop trying after a while and just stay home?"
And that's when I realized what she was asking.
"Do you mean, do men give up and don't bother trying to find women any more?" I clarified.
She said, "Yes. So do they?"
"Yes" I answered.
She was somewhat surprised at my response. She said, "so they just give up? They don't go out anymore? Don't they want to find somebody? Anybody?!"
"Yeah, more or less."
"That's crazy! How do they ever expect to find anybody?"
I replied, "Well...they don't."
Regardless, the point was her reaction surprised me in return to see this was that shocking of a revelation to her. I always thought it was kind of common knowledge, men do indeed give up after a while, but apparently it's not. So allow me to explain.
I don't know when precisely it is, nor is it the same for every guy, but inevitably guys in a sense "burn out." Consider it a staged rocket and as the last vestiges of fuel burn out of the booster, it slowly disengages and disintegrates as it plummets back to Earth. Many things can burn out the fuel;
Divorce and the loss of one's assets
Personal finances/loss of job
Demanding/successful career
Or just plain bad dating experiences (your beloved captain has had suicide threats, gotten punched for refusing a girl sex and unknowingly dated a married woman for three months...you get the idea).
But what ultimately results in the decision to exit the market is more of an economic decision. It is the realization that as you have less and less remaining life you have to make surer and surer bets as to how to spend your time. It's no different than switching from equities to bonds as you approach retirement. Ergo, whereas when you were 18 you would stay at a party all night in the hopes of getting a girl's phone number, when you're 25 you start to think about working instead of partying, and by the time you're 30, you rarely go to clubs, dance halls, bars opting instead to play video games at home or read a book or put some more hours in at the office.
The reason is the expected rate of return of your precious, finite, and perpetually dwindling time. If you go out, hot as you may be when you're 18, you have little to no control over succeeding in getting a girl's number or a date. And as experience will tell you it's a 1/20 shot you will succeed, and that's assuming you have good game. All in all, I would estimate most 20 somethings waste an equivalent to 4 full years of full time work chasing girls to relatively little avail. A significant opportunity cost.
The X-Box 360 on the other hand is a guaranteed rate of return.
Working a couple more hours at work, is a guaranteed rate of return.
Even something as simple as lighting up a cigar with your friends and having a good scotch is a guaranteed rate of return.
And dare the Captain admit he enjoys writing for you honyakers and conversing with you as it is a guaranteed rate of return?
And this is what progressively more and more men turn to as they get older. Now I can certainly see the case where a man gets divorced multiple times, losing 50% of his assets each time as it would accelerate the burning the fuel, but this phenomenon goes beyond married and divorced men. This is merely anecdotal and I'd certainly be welcoming of any other guys out there who have noticed this, but whereas all of 10 years ago nearly 100% of my male friends were looking for a wife, now I think in my group of friends less than 25% of them are, none of which have ever been married all of which are under 45. The rationale is it was too burdensome to go out on the "prowl." The idea of paying a cover to go to a club to yell at some stranger over loud music while paying $10 for parking and having to hike 10 blocks in DT Minneapolis is not appealing.
Going to the local sports bar to feign interest in "Brandi" as she talks about the latest issue of People Magazine or American Idol pales in comparison to shooting Nazi's online with your video gaming buds.
And wasting the hour setting up a Match.com profile because your friend gifted you a free month subscription and swore you'd meet chicks is nowhere near as fun as talking politics over a cigar and scotch with intellectual friends (and I want that hour of my life back by the way Jeff!).
Ergo (and again, this is just what I've personally observed) there is a (dare I say) mass exodus of men out of the dating market and into their own little bachelor worlds and this may go a long way in explaining why you don't really see us out there.
Now again, this is just what I've observed and has been seemingly corroborated by the experiences of many different women I've ran into, but we could be wrong. But I would be very curious of any junior, deputy, official or otherwise bachelor economists out there have seen the same thing.
40 comments:
To your otherwise fine analysis I would add only that men also probably derive less utility from a failed attempt at meeting women than women do at a failed attempt at meeting men. Women attempting to meet men are on average probably more likely than men to do something they would otherwise enjoy, i.e. your dance class.
Men attempting to meet women, on the other hand, are expected to do things generally less appealing to them . - 2:30 PM
Two thoughts.
1) I noticed that recently divorced women made up a large percentage of my students back when I was teaching dance, and these women would always have a hard time following. I realized that they had trust issues, and couldn't "just follow."
2) Since I've been in the state of marriage, I have removed myself from the dance scene. In part, because I moved to a city without a strong dance following, and was tired of dancing with beginners. Also, my interests changed to other things. Fly-fishing, for instance. Painting miniatures and gaming (the Dungeons and Dragons kind, not the video kind).
These activities allowed my introverted nature time to deal with the realities of life and work: I spend time with my wife every day, and I spend time with people at work every day, and this more than fills my social needs. I don't 'need' to spend time with other people in that fashion anymore.
The downside is that I get berated by my former dance partners for not coming out and dancing as much. You know, now that I "found the girl" I don't have to play the field. Never mind that playing the field was antiethical to my whole belief system.
So, yes, Captain. We get tired of the drama and the lights and the noise, and want to sit down in a nice leather chair for some peace and quiet. We want to stand in the middle of a river and hope that a smallmouth hits the muddler minnow we tied on. We focus on earning more or climbing the ladder because that's how we eat.
Seeing the dating scene now, there's no way I'll ever go back into it. I love my wife, but I'm glad she doesn't want to go dancing much anymore. - 2:37 PM
gotten punched for refusing a girl sex
You're misremembering that time your right hand found out that you were cheating on it with your left. - 4:11 PM
Consider me a dating scene dropout. I've had a grand total of one serious relationship/brush-with-matrimony, it didn't end well, and I'm in no rush to throw myself into awkward social situations with women again in the hope that maybe next time it'll be better.
I'm a bit older now and I know what I enjoy and what I want, and damned if dating isn't really, really far down the list. Below hanging out with my buddies, video games, economics, and anime, actually. Since I already have enough access to the above to completely ruin my life if I so choose, I don't see dating becoming a priority for the foreseeable future. Since I take my religion's proscription against premarital sex seriously, there's even less chance the whole thing will pay off somehow.
Then again, women might have better luck finding men if they looked where the men are: doing Man Things(tm) that men enjoy, which not coincidentally aren't the same things that men do when they're out looking for women.
Just for some bonus cynicism, has anyone else ever noticed the kind of guys that women seem to flock to? It's like dating is just Search and Rescue for the emotionally damaged. - 4:16 PM
- Robert Miller said...
In San Francisco, the dating scene is caustic.
The pretty boys and girls dress up in their designer clothes, drive their leased Beemers to the wine bars, sushi restaurants, and chi chi clubs every Thursday and Friday night.
They meet, they date, they take trips to Tahoe and Napa. After a while, one or the other realizes that they're tired of that relationship and they move on to the next one. Each claims that they were the "dumper" instead of the "dumpee."
It's like a square dance - from one partner to the next and they're perpetually unhappy with the person they've got. If all this dating around were part of the fun, that's ok. But when you're unhappy all the time, it's a sign you're doing something wrong.
So, the women all go out together and say, "All the good men are either taken or gay." The problem is that they won't give an average looking Joe with a "normal" car the time of day. No matter how "feminist" they think they are, they all want the men to pay the bill for dinner, dates, and trips.
If a woman is single, it's entirely by choice. For every woman, there exists a man who will love her.
If a woman is always unhappy, it's because she chooses a-holes all the time. - 5:22 PM
As a bachlor male, all I can say is ...where are all these eligible women?
I ballroom dance socially and I got to tell you, unless you are over 50 the pickings are mighty slim in my neighbourhood. Lot's of later middle aged bitter divorcees with issues that make "can't follow" the least of my worries. - 6:03 PM
- Kasia said...
Not having a Y chromosome, I am ill qualified to speculate. I will simply say that, if the following is true:
Or just plain bad dating experiences (your beloved captain has had suicide threats, gotten punched for refusing a girl sex and unknowingly dated a married woman for three months...you get the idea).
...one could hardly fault someone for heading for the hills.
That said, clubs are chock full of Brandis. If you're looking for a woman with a brain, I'd wager that your dance class is much more likely to yield potential dating prospects. - 7:13 PM
Weird; I had the exact same thought earlier today while walking to class.
I think women are just a pain in the ass, plain and simple. Sometimes it's just way easier to spend a night with the Xbox than to fool with pretending to care about what they're saying. I'm never right half the time with girls anyway, so it's much easier just to step out of the game for a little bit and re-evaluate.
Who knows -- maybe women will react to the supply/demand of dating and the market will adjust itself accordingly?
My dad put it pretty simply:
"Women: can't live with them, can't legally kill them." - 7:35 PM
I left the market early.
It's like when you first try out the stock market, if the first two or three stocks you buy lose money, you're out of the game for life. Same deal, two bad outings and I left the ladies market.
Wasn't given any incentive to stay.
--regular guy - 9:34 PM
- Alex said...
Well said, Cap! The first commenter added an important point too. When I was younger I went out to the bars, hit the nightclubs on a daily basis, and went to all the big house parties. My batting average was decent, and a lot of my friends envied my successes - probably because they were unaware of the majority of my failures. But you know what? Thinking back to it, I rarely had any fun. Sure you get a temporary sense of accomplishment after nailing the hottest chick in the club ... a sense of accomplishment which quickly fades when you see her at the same club the next night, going home with a different guy. The only times that were REALLY fun were the rare nights when nobody cared about "picking up", and I could just relax and hang out with good friends.
Kasia brings up a good point too - once I stopped caring about women and started doing things which I actually enjoyed, I ended up meeting women who were a hell of a lot more interesting than the ones at the bars, clubs, and dance lessons. Hell, last year I went to a museum for the first time since my teens, and ended up meeting a gorgeous redhead with whom I had a great time. Women are everywhere - you don't need to go out to the meat markets in order to meet them. So why would I waste my time, energy, and money, going out to meet desperate women who need a man in order to feel worthwhile? - 10:55 PM
- John said...
I have in the past left the market, though I'm currently giving it...let's call it one last kick at the cat.
Second date with bachelorette #1 was last Tuesday. She was as pleasant as during the first date, but her distinctly uninteresting personality definitely started to come out. And her complaints. About everything. Not in a, "wow, everything sucks" kind of way. Instead, it was a far more subtle, low-level whine about things she doesn't like.
I had to spring $50 for two hours of her company (some sushi, sashimi, tempura, and a couple of green teas). With nary an offer to pay half. Not that I would have accepted it, mind, even though I considered my time more as professional services rendered instead of time well spent.
I have a female friend who has been on the market for a while. She dates for sport. But I think what she hadn't thought about until I brought it up (and even now, doesn't much care) is that she gets to date for free. She gets taken for coffee. Then dinner. Then dinner and drinks. Last weekend, to the coast for Canadian Thanksgiving (in fairness, he's now a steady and they're both officially off the market). I, on the other hand, because of the presence of my penis, get to be the one who actually ponies up for those things.
It's not that I don't want to pay. I do. I consider it an honor and this is not a complaint. But there is most certainly a cost to dating for men...for me, at least. A genuine, cash-money, directly out-of-my-pocket-and-onto-the-table cost to taking a girl out. It tempers my enthusiasm for sport dating, because I must weigh it against all of the other things that I want to acquire.
Relationship. Continental GT. Relationship. Continental GT. You know, I don't think I need to deliberate too long to realize which one will actually provide a smoother and more reliable ride. - 11:21 PM
I was burnt out for about 3 years.
Dating became increasingly more unappealing.
I began to ask myself if I was being too picky. I wouldn't ask for a character or personality trait in another that I wasn't personally prepared to match.
I just wanted a responsible, drama-free, non-overweight woman, who didn't suffer from "entitlement" disease and that knew how to save money instead of spending money like there was an expiration date written on it.
After years of dating I gave up.
It just wasn't worth the headaches. Most women I've met expected too much, cannot ratiocinate accurately, or in my experience I believe they overvaluated themselves much like Lehman Brothers did. Ouch! but I believe it's true.
Since then, when I least expected it. I met the best woman I could ever ask for. We are in a very healthy happy relationship.
I realized that, I wasn't asking for too much after all.
from email@example.com - 12:26 AM
- Kasia said...
Ryan Fuller:
Just for some bonus cynicism, has anyone else ever noticed the kind of guys that women seem to flock to? It's like dating is just Search and Rescue for the emotionally damaged.
I could say the same about women that men seem to flock to. I think a lot of people just are very damaged, and are attracted to the worst people for them.
And good for you about the abstinence thing. I thought my fiancé was a pretty rare find for being willing to honor *my* convictions on that. A guy who's committed to it himself is quite remarkable. - 7:06 AM
I still 'date', but it is mostly just having dinner or coffee with a couple female friends. What makes it a 'date', I suppose is that they are interested in me, I think, but I have become essentially numb to any idea of a relationship.
Rammstein covers the the topic nicely:
Loosely translated as "I have no desire". - 9:37 AM
I'm probably not really qualified to comment on this as I've been married for well over 3 years, and attached for 5-6, but I was talking to a single friend, and she claimed that dating has costs for women too. Like getting a manicure, buying a new outfit, etc. I never did any of this before going on a date, so I guess it only has costs for SOME women.
P.S. When I was still dating, I usually offered to pitch in. I never had good experiences with the guy who EXPECTS you to pay on the first date though. - 2:56 PM
Lots of thoughtful comments here. However, John really cracked me up with this gem: "I, on the other hand, because of the presence of my penis, get to be the one who actually ponies up for those things."
Thanks, John - that really made me laugh. (in a good way.)
BTW, you know the technical term: You are a Phallic American. And damn proud of it!
The Big Seester - 5:25 PM
Simple cost benefits analysis.
Men have needs. The utility gained from a woman over my hand is marginal. The cost of a woman over my hand is gargantuan. - 3:14 PM
I tend to agree. When I was a teenager the girls my age didn't want anything to do with me because they were chasing after the older guys.
So I spent my teen years playing video games.
When I reached my 20's, women were interested in those tall, good looking guys. Even the average girls I approached. Heck, even the obese girls wanted nothing to do with me.
Then when I reached my late 20's, women were interested in me(more likely my money).
They'd date me if I had a job - any job - and was going anywhere.
It seems most males do not care any longer about getting married and having children. A decision that lead to this fallout of men in the dating world.
But you know, I spent all of my life without sex and female attention. Now I look around, see most women being infected with HPV(linked to oral and prostate cancer) and herpes.
I see these women putting out like it's Christmas to the bad boys and the Brad Pitts and I sincerely cannot find myself interested in women anymore.´
Even if a virginal 18 year old woman wanted something to do with me, I wouldn't be into her.´
My xbox360 gives me all the pleasure I need, all the attention I could want for.
It's quite funny how women didn't want anything to do with me when they were young, tight and std free but now that they're loose, std infected and old... I'm like honey.
Now they complain that I don't want to man up.
Gotta love their cognitive dissonance. - 8:20 AM
All this talk about Xbox just makes me think you guys need to grow up. You man-children need to realize that a real man games on a PC or at least a PS3 :D
Anon. 3:40 PM said:
"Simple cost benefits analysis.
Men have needs. The utility gained from a woman over my hand is marginal. The cost of a woman over my hand is gargantuan."
Brilliant. And true, much more true than meets the eye.
Justin said:
"I think women are just a pain in the ass, plain and simple."
Also very true. Some of us guys enjoy drama-free, low-stress lifestyles. Insert an entitled drama queen into the equation and you have paradise lost. No amount of hole will offset her mood swings, whiny behavior and entitlement mentality. - 9:45 AM
North American women have little to offer. I'm 39, still have my looks, and can't be bothered with spoiled, self centred, entitled N. American women anymore - they're too much of a risk.
I wonder if part of it could be men's dropping testosterone levels in the industrialized world. I'm 28 and don't pursue girls at all and actually try to avoid situations where I would be forced to interact with single women.
There are a lot of intellectual or rational reasons for this that are described throughout the manosphere, but I wonder if the deep underlying reason is that I am not horny anymore.
When I was 18 no amount of reasoning would have made me stop pursuing girls (in my then very inept manner). Now I really don't feel that attracted to them. Sure, I'd be happy if they took off their shirt, but I wouldn't go to any trouble to convince them to. Heck, a lot of the time I'm too lazy to look at porn. - 5:31 PM
- Jesse Edmunds said...
Very nice article. The comments were very insightful as well, especially the one about cost-benefit analysis.
IMO vigorous dating is simply not worth it at all unless you want kids/a relationship.
The pain/pleasure reward benefit just isn't there.
I wonder if women will be adapting to this change or perhaps both sexes will simply be holding back in a stalemate? - 11:40 AM
Damn. This is exactly where I am right now. So sick of the dating scene that I haven't had a date in years. I am into my career, my cars, my motorcycles and my dog rescue group. People are always trying to fix me up but I am honestly not interested anymore. I'm tired of the bullshit and I have better things to do, especially when every women my age approaches me with a suspicious glare and asks my why I am still single.
I guess I'm not the only one. - 9:49 PM
- Single White Male said...
I just wrote about this on my own blog and it was initially received a little strangely, but I didn't word it quite as well as you did.
Area plays a large portion in this too. I live in the greater DC are and this part of the country is known for how BAD the dating scene is for men.
I'm only 23 and because of the low quality of women out there I'm already wising up enough to start to compare the value of my time and what I get in return.
Absolutely great post, glad to see I'm now alone - 4:48 PM
- Captain Capitalism said...
Better start reading Roissy. He's in that area.
- Alek Novy said...
I referenced you as related-reading in my post on the same subject:
http://aleknovy.com/2010/01/17/why-men-are-increasingly-prefering-videos-games-over-dating-mating-and-courtship/ - 7:17 AM
We can see a strong theme running through this forum about how much it costs a man to get laid; not only in monetary terms, but in the patience and tolerance required to spend time with loose tramps who no longer regard or even pretend to market their charms as 'exclusive'.
It makes it sound like all us men want is to get laid and all we need is a fat wallet to have success at that. But for that, there are honest prostitutes; women who are professionally educated, concerned and attentive about hygiene and far more expert at sex-for-pleasure than even the most enthusiastic amateur. Most importantly, whores only charge the guy enjoying their physical charms at the time, for a prior and specifically specified fee. Girlfriends and wives just spend as much as they can get and then run-up menu bills and credit card debts for the man to cover.
The worst scum of the earth, however, are ex wives who continue to charge their ex husbands for pleasuring some other guy!
If the husband dumps the wife or loses her through cheating on her or being violent or hurting her in any way; that is his burden and his just deserts for breaching contract. But if she leaves him for another; why shouldn't the other guy pay for shafting her? Why should the cuckolded husband have to pay for that too? To add injury to insult? There is something wrong with the 'no-fault' divorce laws.
To those of you who now find yourselves in what you believe to be settled relationships; I wish you well and good luck. It's all to do with mutual trust in one life-partner. There is a lot to be gained from that. But it's the riskiest deal in the world.
Me? I was married for 27 years to a woman 17 years my junior who dumped me on my 65th birthday. No charges of maltreatment have been laid or even alleged against me by her. Just a big bill and monthly fee I have to pay her to pleasure someone else. - 5:05 PM
- Mare Bear said...
I don't think just men leave the market. I am a woman who has left the market herself. The idea of having to face someone and discuss the virtues of Xbox has left me cold. I have tried marriage a couple of times and have lost half of everything I've worked for as well. My son just graduated HS and for the first time in years, I get my place to myself!! I am LOVING it!! I do as I please and the thought of having anyone in my place is totally unpalatable to me. Sure I get asked out pretty often, but I am burned out. I don't feel like dealing with any of the dating bs any more. Its just more fun to work on my projects, hang out with my girlfriends and have interesting conversations and have my home the way I like it.
The times I have been asked out, men themselves are shocked when I say I am not dating. I am an attractive person and can hold my own out there. Men have flat out asked me why I am not dating and whether or not I like guys!! Wow!! Of course I like guys, I gave birth to one of you for God sake, lol. The truth is you boiled it down right here, I am burnt out. I have had a child, have done the marriage thing, and am really enjoying my life as it is. What's wrong with that? I don't like bars, clubs or the match.com thing. I am focusing on starting a new business that I love. Life is good. Why rock the boat.
Thank you for describing exactly how I feel. I know you meant this for men, but I think this could explanation could easily go both ways. - 8:01 AM
- Captain Capitalism said...
Welcome to the club.
Just don't relapse 2 years from now when the genetics start kicking in. - 8:40 AM
Those clueless dance class women...I gave up at age 15, reassessed and gave up again ~10 years later, and then independently invented my own version of what's now called PUA/game years before anyone was writing books about it. In fact, by the time it became popular I'd already moved on to other interests. So I've never really been part of their market. For bunches of reasons.
The funny thing is, I've been hearing my entire adult life about this great man
shortage. I'm supposed to be in short supply and high demand. Well, there's a well-developed psychology of shortages, and women just dont exhibit the characteristics -- except for the complaining. Too many women just come across as you-know-whats who are always getting shortchanged one way or the other by men.
Far from being the smart, capable, achieving women we're told about all the time, they come across as incompetents stuck in their Cinderella Complexes, waiting around passively for their princes to show up on their doorsteps.Unless a guy is fulfilling their role expectations, he's as good as invisible to them. Which is as it should be.
If you want people at your dance, you have to invite them. Duh. - 7:13 PM
Wow, this forum is awesome! I think that all the previous posts do a great job of summing up why guys hate dating, or at least why guys like me hate dating. I am in my early 30's and even if I do say so myself, I look better now then I ever have before-I'm in great shape, a full head of thick hair and since I'm not a sun worshiper or a smoker (of cigarettes that is) my skin looks great, on top of that I finally have some money saved and am generally in a good place financially, so I should basically be a "great catch." But, that far from how I feel in terms of the few dating experiences I have had over the past year. I went out a couple of times with two girls, one I knew through friends and the other that I had actually met on a cross country flight. They were both nice enough girls from the outset, but after getting to know they a little better my opinion changed. At various points in my brief courtships with these girls they both made mention to other guys they they were seeing-this made absolutely NO sense to me whatsoever and still can not figure it out, in fact the only thought that I had when they said this to me was "Don't sleep with them" which I thought for the following reasons: 1) If a woman is seeing multiple guys at the same time and presumably sexually active them, then the chances that she may have an STD are elevated over a woman who is only active with one guy at a time, 2) Seeing multiple guys at the same time says to me that she expects guys to compete for her attention, 3) It simply bad form, and quite frankly rather trashy to tell someone on a first or second date that you are seeing other guys. Mind you, they didn't say this to me because they were trying to send me a hint that they weren't interested in me, I am a perfect gentleman and both of continued to talk to me after our "dates," I was the one who stopped talking to them. To be honest, I didn't even think that either of these girls were all that good looking, they weren't outright dogs, I mean I do have some standards, they were attractive but I have have dated/hooked up with much better looking girls then either of them. Anyway, I to me these experiences just reinforces my opinion that there just aren't many decent, upstanding "nice" girls out there to date. What I mean is that if I am going to invest the time, money and energy into dating then I'd want to go out with a girl who at least has the basic understanding of how you are supposed to behave on a date-what happened to women trying to entice men by playing hard to get which is much sexier then a girl who blurts out all the sorted details of her sex life. Anyway, I think that this post really captures how a lot of guys feel in terms of dating-yes we are most certainly in the 21st century and times may have changed, but if women still expect men to act old fashioned by holding doors and picking up the bill then I think that is only far that men expect women to do the same-be nice, charming and sweet and for god sakes at least pretend that they aren't easy floozies because an easy lay really isn't worth an STD.
I'm from Ontario, Canada. When I was in my early 30's I too had it with over-demanding Canadian women. I was trying as hard as I could to meet them, be nice to them, kind and caring to them, but they treated me like garbage, toying with me, and just using me as an ATM machine to try to get whatever they wanted from me, and did not care about me or my feelings in any way. So when I reached my mid 30's ( in 1999 ) I decided to search for a wife somewhere else. I went to Russia and met and married what I thought was a kind and caring lady who had a difficult life there. I brought her to Canada and I tried to be a nice kind and caring husband. Well, it turned out that foreign women are just as weird as local Canadian women. I did everything for my ex-wife, I even cured a fatal disease that she had that was slowly killing her. And what did she do for my kindness?: She met a 'bad boy' in her accounting school class ( That I was paying for by the way) and she had a relationship with him. A year later she demanded a divorce so that she could 'be' with him. 7 years of marriage over just like that. Thank GOD I had the insight to demand she sign a pre-nup before marriage as she would have gone after everything I had. I only wanted her to be happy so I did as she asked (with the exception that I did not give her any money as she was demanding), I even helped her to move her stuff so that she could be with the man who she told me she loved. But that other guy was smart, he left her 6 months later as he too got tired of her 'princess' ways. Now I'm 48 and while I would still love to meet a nice kind and caring lady, I find that those women simply don't exist in the real world. So now I've got a new pet cat and I get all the love and caring from her that I need. And if I need sex …. ? Well, that part of life is dead and gone, sadly. But even in that marriage there was not any sex, maybe once a week if I was lucky but she didn't want it anymore than that. So marriage was a fun experience, it showed me how empty that institution really is for men and how there is not much in it for men. I do want to have children of my own, but now I realize that the only way to have children of my own is to earn a ton of money and then adopt my own children. If you try to get married to have children the only thing that will happen is that she will cheat on you, take you to court and take away half your stuff, then move to some place far away so that you will never see your kids ever again, yet you will have to pay financial support for the rest of your life for those kids you will never see. Thank God I didn't have kids with my ex-wife or I would be screwed like that right now! So I don't see any benefits to having a relationship with women: They cannot give you children as they will simply take the kids away, but leave you with the debts of caring for them. If you want sex and get married then that will soon stop, (maybe once a month if you are lucky), yet you will have to pay for her support / clothes / food / etc. anyways. It is so much easier and cheaper (and better) to simply visit escorts and adopt children on your own, then for love and companionship get 2 pet cats to keep you company in the cold nights.
- 3rd Millenium Men said...
This is extremely thought provoking but quite scary. Going to put it into a Best of the Manosphere very soon.
- Captain Capitalism said...
3rd, you should look at
"The 30-40 Something Woman Who Wouldn't Leave Me Alone"
"The Minimalism Threat"
"Economics of Courtship"
Those are better than this. - 9:21 AM
- ar10308 said...
Regarding the Follow aspect of dance, I've been learning Lindy Hop for about 2.5 months now, so I am getting pretty decent as a Lead. I still have a lot of work to do on transitions and implementing the various moves we learn each week, but I'm rather happy with my progress.
This past weekend there was a very big party for a certain dance club's 1 year anniversary in decently size mid-Atlantic city. There was a huge range of ages there (the club doesn't serve alcohol, so there were some minors in attendance). For the second song, I asked a very pretty, slender and young brunette to dance. I asked her for experience level, and she said she had only taken the free lesson once but that she liked to spin. So spin her I did. She was one of the best follows I'd ever led, despite having so little experience she just went where I led her, swung-out and spun as I told her. She just flowed. It was great. She had the warmest smile on her face the entire time. As soon as the song ended and I brought her back to her friends, and she was immediately asked to dance by someone else. Turns out, she was in High School and her mom had taken her and 2 of her friends to this dance hall instead of their Homecoming dance because that is where they wanted to go (mom stood off in the distance, keeping an eye on them).
Contrast to later that evening, an older (at least 50s) woman asked me to dance, so I obliged. She was nearly impossible to lead. She was rigid, immobile, unresponsive and gave me no smile. I've danced with other older women, and most weren't nearly so difficult to lead.
It made me realize that if I am going to marry a woman (I'm 28), that one of her qualities is that she must be very easy to lead. There also comes a point in a woman's life where she is no longer able to follow if she hasn't been practicing it. - 10:33 AM
- MarkyMark said...
Gee, do I spend a couple of hours on a bad date with a PITA bitch, or do I spend those same couple of hours working on my bike? Working on my bike will give me a better return and more enjoyment. Yeah, I'm out of the market too...
Did anyone ever consider the effects of soy in the food supply on todays men?. Its insidious and quite emasculating. I think this is partly to blame for lack of desire and other unmanly traits
"just wanted a responsible, drama-free, non-overweight woman, who didn't suffer from "entitlement" disease and that knew how to save money instead of spending money like there was an expiration date written on it."
I think that sums up my current thoughts on dating.
I'm divorced and in my late 40's and I'm frequently finding that women as they get older act more entitled and are less fun to be around as I get to know them. So far all I've been willing to provide such women is a carrousel ride but nothing more. I never understood the attraction to younger women until now. - 5:50 PM
As a man who divorced over a decade ago, I can attest to the fact that, despite being athletic, articulate, and successful, I have more or less left the dating market because it just isn't worth the time, effort, and expense involved. In other words, your analysis is spot on. As you say, my bachelor activities are very much more rewarding.


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Although he's already 27 and he has never lit up the AHL in scoring, blue liner Corey Potter might be the most unknown fantasy "prospect" in the NHL right now. The Michigan native spent four years putting up decent but not spectacular numbers for Michigan State before he joined the Rangers organization in 2006. Drafted in the fourth round by the Rangers in 2003 after his freshman season, Potter spent his first pro season shuttling between Charlotte in the ECHL and the Rangers AHL team in Hartford. After another four seasons of modest AHL offensive production, Potter broke through offensively last season with a trade to Pittsburgh where he notched 37 points in 75 games for Wilkes-Barre Scranton. He followed that up with nine points in 12 playoff games, enough to seriously interest Edmonton who had knocked on his door the year before. After playing nine NHL games in five seasons, Potter parlayed his AHL production last season into one goal and six points in seven games for Edmonton this season. He has the second best plus minus of Edmonton's defensemen, and after missing the first two games, has played a consistent 20 minutes for the Oilers. Potter was rewarded for fine play against Vancouver Oct. 25th with 27 minutes of ice time, a sure sign the coach has faith in him. Actually, Edmonton's coach Tom Renney has some history with Potter. Renney was New York's vice-president of player personnel when Potter was drafted. Potter is getting lots of time on Edmonton's power play with one goal and four assists so far with the man advantage. If that power play time continues look for his point totals to reach at least 35 as long as he remains healthy. The Oilers young guns have produced prodigiously on the PP this season and are currently ranked ninth. Yes Ryan Whitney has had injury problems but for the skeptics out there, note that Whitney played 20 minutes in 5 of Potter's seven games. Although he's tied for 15th in scoring among NHL defensemen, Potter, 6'3, 200 pounds, made his bread and butter as a defensive player. After last season's AHL breakthrough and this season's fast offensive start, keep an eye on his production and don't expect the world. Do expect a nice depth defenseman in most keeper leagues if you can pick him up. Watch his offensive improvement next year too because his offense is skewing upwards. Not bad for a guy who was considering Europe two seasons ago. Write comment
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I am sure we will be reading about this in the papers. If Lee Child doesn't view this book as a copyright infringement on his Jack Reacher series then something is wrong. Baldacci is certainly a better writer than this. The Jack Reacher series is a good read but my word it isn't worth copying. The army, the coffee, the clock in his head, being well over 6 ft tall, the headbutt to the nose, walking rather than driving, the only thing Puller has that Reacher doesn't is a change of clothes. If I didn't know better I would think David Baldacci is a pen name for Lee Child. Simply to close for me. Don't put me on the jury. Child would win hands down. Baldacci gets an "F" for lack of orginality.
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WASHINGTON — The universe of potential changes to federal gun laws seemed to shrink Wednesday during an occasionally fraught Senate hearing on gun violence as lawmakers and proponents of more gun rules tussled with gun rights advocates over the availability of some types of weapons and ammunition. In the end, chances for a ban on assault weapons dimmed, and compromise seemed elusive.
The hearing, the first held by the Senate Judiciary Committee since the mass shooting last month in a Newtown, Conn., school, began on a poignant note as former representative Gabrielle Giffords, who was critically injured in a 2011 shooting, addressed the committee slowly and with passion, essentially begging them to come up with legislation to address gun violence.
Salem: The NRA has over 4 million members. Since this "gun debate" started, it has added 250K members.
This also brings up an interesting point. Many people think the NRA speaks for all gun owners, obviously it does not.
According to the U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services, there are approximately 80,000,000 gun owners in the U.S.
In 2010 (the last year for which data is available from the ATF)
5,459,240 Total weapons were manufactured
2,258,450 Pistols
558,927 Revolvers
1,830,556 Rifles
743,378 Shotguns
67,929 Misc (frames, starters guns,etc)
The NRA is demonized in this debate for blocking legislation. It is also accused of whipping up paranoia among its members to promote gun sales for the manufacturers. That does not equate with 80M gun owners and only 4M NRA members. Evidently 76M people have acquired guns without being whipped into a frenzy by the NRA. The numbers above would also indicate that more than just NRA members are buying guns every year.
The debate is not just with the NRA, it is with a very large segment of American society.
You can hold out the NRA as the devil, but then witch hunts have always been popular. The result has always been hanging or burning of the innocent with no reduction in evil.
The NRA has the deserved reputation of blocking reasonable gun legislation. They do this with money and threats. The Grover Norquist of guns,, you might say. There are enough people fed up with the gun situation as it exists. We'll be patient and wait for the elections to see who thinks the status quo is OK. If the pols are afraid of what the gun lobby will do, they should give a little more thought to the situatiuon and consider the hundreds of millions who are not going to accept business as usual.
PV: Therein lies the rub, what is "reasonable gun legislation"? NY is quickly finding out that Cuomo's idea of "reasonable" isn't being viewed that way by a considerable portion of its population, not necessarily affiliated with the NRA. His idea's would not even come close to flying anywhere but here in the NE. Dianne Feinstein's idea of "reasonable" is meeting with the same welcome across the country.
Evidently you have not been following the news, one of the primary reasons Feinsteins bill is given little chance of success is because of those elections. Unlike the NE, many democratic seats in the rest of the country depend on not advocating gun control. You should also be aware that many other states have "recall" provisions and the people are willing to excercise them. So it is not wise for a pol to say one thing on an issue like this, then vote a different way once elected.
You speak of hundreds of millions. Do a little math please. Only about 130M people vote in a national election. Hardly HUNDREDS of millions. There are 80M gun owners, half of those don't vote either. Doing the math, that leaves about 90M. Out of those, many don't care one way or the other. It is a good technique to try to sound like the pro legislation group has hundred of millions, but the numbers just aren't there.
A better question is: Why doesn't the Brady Bunch have 4M members with lots of money? They have gagillionaire backers like George Soros and others behind them? Certainly they could match the paltry 200+M the NRA has per year to operate?
I think the answer is simple, it is not just the NRA and your allegations that cause this "reasonable legislation" to fail consistently.
The NRA doesn't even know how to manage a public relations campaign. Instead, they will infuriate people. Like me who grew up around guns--every pickup had a gun rack full of rifles and those weapons were usually loaded. The public needs to heal from some very serious tragedies and we don't need Uncle Wayne running his mouth about the right to bear arms. Thanks to the missteps of the NRA, legit gun owners are going to lose. Public perception is very powerful.
The NRA has gained over 250K members since this started. You are right of course, public perception is very powerful. Here in the NE, where rights have been trampled on for years, this is viewed as business as usual. Travel out of this strange corner of the US and you will encounter very different attitudes.
Uncle Wayne wouldn't be running his mouth if it were not for the likes of Dianne Feinstein, Cuomo, and Patrick viewing this tragedy as an opportunity to make an attempt at the largest gun grabs in US history. Feinstein did not even wait for the funerals of those kids, so do not talk about the public needing time to heal. Cuomo rushed a bill through his legislature without public debate.
You are right, public perception is very powerful, keep in mind that the public extends beyond the borders of NE.
Reading thses posts, most have been very good but this one hits the mark. Yes, I'm a Patron Life Member of the NRA. I've wrung that bell here plenty of times but Cranky is correct. The approach the NRA is taking works great for some of the country but I'm not happy with their initial comments. They are doing a better job lately and need to take a very measured approach. Unfortunately Wayne seems to use the podium in a similar way that he talks about protection. He apparently needs to show that he's got more firepower and that's not always the best medicine at least not with the fire and brimstone speeches he's been known to use.
If the NRA doesn't get some new leadership, then they should be disregarded. The same holds true for the Republican party.
Frankly, I am truly disappointed. A tragedy occurs. Anyone with an ounce of common sense can agree that we should all work to figure out how to prevent future tragedies like this. Within days, it turns into a "gun debate" with very little discussion of real solutions.
Almost immediately, people like Feinstein, Cuomo, Patrick all rushed to put forth legislation that would allegedly prevent or reduce future tragedies like this. Looking at the various packages, they all had the same theme running through them. Start limiting magazine sizes to less than 10 rounds. Cuomo's contained provisions for forcing lawful owners to sell their soon to be illegal magazines out of state or surrender them. Feinsteins went beyond "assault rifles" to begin many popular handguns used for self defense. Patrick's pushed the magazine limit to 7 rounds, in a state that already has a 10 round limit.
Some of these packages paid lip service to mental health issues, some didn't. Some address a form of "universal background checks" which other states cannot be forced to comply with, making them of doubtful use.
The bottom line is that all of the "legislation" was aimed at gun owners. Since a gun was used, somehow the solution must lie with gun owners. They must be gotten under control.
But gun owners know that in previous ban attempts in this country and elsewhere, the majority of guns and magazines are not turned in. Some of the legislation contains "grandfather" clauses which definitely neuter the stated purpose of the ban anytime soon.
No proposals are made to actually improve security at schools.
Ridiculous arguments ensue over constitutional rights, reasonable people would do anything to protect children (except provide security at schools), that gun owners bear the blame for Sandy Hook, ad nauseam.
No one is actually working to solve the problem. Instead they are all trying to use this event to further an agenda.
Anyone who actually believes that banning guns, whether in total or partial, will prevent this type of tragedy is a fool and is only trying to advance their anti gun beliefs while risking the lives of children.
The other arguments concerning other gun violence, homicide, suicide, accidental shootings are separate concerns that need to be addressed as separate issues. There is no "one size fits all" solution.
The politicians are trying to gage how they position themselves on this issue, having lost sight of the real goal, to prevent future Sandy Hooks. It seems like everyone else has too.
Guns don't kill people, people with guns kill people. More people with guns kill more people (often themselves). People with more powerful guns that shoot more bullets per minute kill even more people.
There are violent video games and movies all over the world. There are good and bad people all over the world. Only in countries with a high gun-to-person ratio do you also have a high gun death rates.
It's insipid and shameful to pretend that controlling access to weapons is not the answer to controlling death by weapons.
It's insipid and shameful to pretend that lots more armed "good guys" will prevent armed "bad guys" from killing people. Remember those NY cops who hit the by-standers outside the Empire State Building last August? Remember when Sgt. John Russell killed five of his fellow soldiers, all, we can say, trained and ready to deal with threats? More armed people do not solve this problem.
Keeping guns under control would. It is an obvious conclusion based on the evidence in hand. Denying this conclulsion, like all other denial of reality, is wrong.
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I have to hand it to you, History (carefully of course) - you write really well and you type really fast. Honest.
For all of you who think defending your kids with a gun is BS, just two days ago:
Woman home alone, kid at home. Three men broke in. Shot one in stomach. They fled. Arrested at hospital.
Anecdotes of this kind can be countered by anecdotes of the opposite kind, that's why anecdotes are not evidence. There is also no evidence that the proposed gun control would have made the story any different.
Here are some statistics:
Firearms and Suicide
- Although most gun owners reportedly keep a firearm in their home for "protection" or "self defense," 83 percent of gun-related deaths in these homes are the result of a suicide, often by someone other than the gun owner.
- Firearms are used in more suicides than homicides.
- Death by firearms is the fastest growing method of suicide.
- Firearms account for 50 percent of all suicides.
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8:00am Friday 22nd March 2013 in Sport By Tim Ashton
Ten minutes before the final whistle at Accrington Stanley, AFC Wimbledon boss Neal Ardley spent time alone in the dressing room considering how to react to a 4-0 thrashing.
Rather than rant and rave, he opted to draw the players and staff together into a circle of togetherness.
The Tuesday night League Two mauling in Lancashire ended a run of three games unbeaten that had lifted the Dons clear of the drop zone.
However, the Dons are now back on the fringes of the trap door after three of the teams beneath them won in midweek.
And Ardley, pictured, faces a crisis in defence ahead of Saturday's visit of Morecambe with Kelly Youga unavailable due to international duty, Alan Bennett and Jonanthan Meades doubtful, and long-term injuries robbing him of Pim Balkestein and Will Antwi.
Ardley said: "We are down to the bare bones at the back, which will be a problem. But we're also concerned about Brennan Dickenson. He took a knock to the foot and it swelled up alarmingly on the way home.
"Saturday would be his last game on loan, so if he is going to be out for three or four weeks then he is not going to play any part in the run-in."
Ardley had been expecting a blip in results despite the good form that had garnered nine points out of nine – although he had not predicted a 4-0 drubbing.
He said: "It is par for the course being the team we are.
"I don't want to play the Accrington result down because the fans who went there deserved better but, when we defend like we did to concede the goals, and we've not defended like that for six or seven games, then it has to go down as a blip.
I went into the dressing room 10 minutes before the end, when the game was dead, and thought about what I would say.
"In the end, I formed a circle, we all linked arms, the staff included, and said every time we have had this knock back we have assessed it and kicked on again.
"The boys needed picking up because we have a lot of work to do."


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Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure, Investment and Cities, Nicola Sturgeon, said: "Scotland is an energy rich nation and everyone should live in a safe, warm, affordable home.
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