re: Bachelor Nation: 70% of Men Aged 20-34 Are Not Married

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8. Women used to also be able to differentiate themselves via housekeeping skills. However, this generation, and to a lesser extent, the generation before them, has completely missed out on these essential skills. Most young women can't cook. Even fewer of them are willing to clean, know how to sew, garden, bake, or have any real useful skills. Their parents created a generation of spoiled, narcissistic women who have little to offer society but their looks, but then complain that that is the only metric by which they are judged. Sure, there are tons of intelligent career women out there. But if little sorority Susie expects to be able to attain her Mrs. degree, she better learn something more valuable than "looks effortlessly cute in her giant t-shirt and nike shorts".

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This. This right here. My girlfriend asked me to teach her how to iron. She's older than me by a few years. She's got kids! She can't fricking iron?!?!

My cousins girlfriend asked me to iron her clothes. I think she was half joking, but she's my age, she should be a pro by now.

Increasingly, young women lack even the most basic domestic skills, but still want to work part-time dead end jobs, or not work at all, and have a man take care of them. They want little to no responsibility in a workplace or at home.

And God save you if she decides she's tired of you after 20 years of marriage.

I'm single. I'll be 30 this year. I'm not even sure if I want kids. Why in the frick should I settle for a dim witted leech? Now, yes, I do want to get married one day. But it will be when I decide I'm ready for it, to a woman whose passion and ambition match my own.

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boosiebadazz must be a woman. now i'm not a red pill bro...i roll my eyes at that notion...but any guy who criticizes a guy must be a woman.

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Maybe if more people look at it as a commitment and a partnership instead of two component parts, we'd have a smaller divorce rate

I'd also like to see a bit more due diligence by some of these peckerwoods, but pussy is a powerful force

Most powerful force in history. Compound interest is second, but I think compound interest was created to lure pussy.

Got married at 22. We had our first child when I was 24. We've been married almost 20 years.

I tell people all the time: either get married early (like we did) or later in life (35-40). There are pluses and minuses to each strategy. My youngest turns 18 when I'm 44. That leaves my wife and I 20 years or so in our peak earning years to do whatever we want without kid baggage.

I honestly can't imagine trying to raise a teenager in today's crazy fricked up environment at damn near 60 years old. It's all I can do to keep up with them now!

I am 27 and got married at 26.

We were together for 5+ years before engagement and co-habitated for a year before. That is a lot of life stages to stick with each other.

18-20 friends
20 year old college kids started dating
21 year old college kids still dating
22-25 moving to new city jobless and getting jobs and getting new circles of friends
25-26 living together
26 engaged

People who rush are stupid. She is my best friend and has been that way for a long time through a whole lot of life changes.

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i don't mean it like that, i guess.... i just meant balanced. guys act like it's such an inconvenience to be a well-balanced individual who doesn't suppress some deep-seeded social construct about what it means to be a "man."

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And this a huge problem with a lot of men. The alpha male type, especially.

I'm a man. I know what I need, and I don't pull any punches. I also don't need to advertise it on a billboard, and I'm not afraid to do things that may be "unmanly".

Basically, IDGAF, I do what I want.

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Men don't have kids..........EVER. They rent them at the pleasure of the woman who they made them with. They are the woman's kids. She can, at any point, choose to move to Timbuktu with those kids and send you a bill while letting another man raise them.

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Again, I'm not blaming men for creating the world as it now is. I will blame us if our collective response to the situation is to throw up our hands and say "if they want to be used, I will use them", "there's a risk this woman I love might leave me and use the court system to royally F me, so F it I'll just live a self-interested life", etc.
I can totally understand why a man who has already been down that road doesn't want to do it again, but I think young men should be encouraged to change the world by demanding more out of their women or simply choosing women who don't buy into what the feminists are selling.

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Hammertime

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Don't take this as an attack, because it's really not. The more I read your posts, the more I feel you could benefit from some counseling.

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When women do this, they don't really accept the guy.

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isn't there a gray area here?

That's deep.