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I think part of the reason it's so funny for me is because it's hard to tell exactly who is being pilloried here. It's capable of various interpretations. Is it making fun of trad women who are influenced by modern ideas? That's one possible interpretation. Is it making fun of men who want women to fulfill more traditional roles in society and in marriage? That's also possible. It kind of looks to me more like a self-parody than a parody of someone else. I'm not sure; it's sort of a Rorschach test in which everyone sees their own ideas, I think. There are multiple layers here, which I think is part of what makes it so clever.
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It's really very simple. TC women, with a good amount of justification, want a man who can bring in enough income, and whose job is secure enough, for them to be able to have several children and stay at home instead of being in the workplace. Time was, pretty much any Joe Schmo could pull this off with minimal education coupled with a donkey-load of hard work. Nowadays, it's a real hat trick. A lot of guys just don't have that ability, and they never will. They're not lazy, they just can't pull down those kinds of bucks. Very few women want to sign on to a life of poverty. And don't take this as a slap towards the female sex, but many women have an "all or nothing at all" mentality --- "if I can't have the best, I just won't have anyone". At least that's been my experience.
But it's a two-way street. Quite frankly, men tend to have tastes, especially in the physical department, that are beyond their ability to fulfill --- "champagne tastes on a beer pocketbook", applied to women. They want a more attractive woman (and let's face it, looks are
huge when it comes to men being attracted to women) than they could ever realistically get. Personally, I find the idea of an intelligent woman with whom I can converse as a peer, about the things that really matter (and I refer not just to religion), just as appealing, if not more so, than appearance, but that doesn't seem to be a motivator for many men. They can't get what they want, they have a hard time settling for what they
could get, so their thinking, too, is a variation on the theme of "if I can't have the best, I just won't have anyone".
And on both sides, the number of TCs in general is so small, that just being brutally honest, there aren't a whole lot to choose from, whether women seeking men, or men seeking women.
In short, women need to lower their financial expectations, and men need to lower their appearance expectations.
I plead guilty as charged, to having placed an inordinate amount of emphasis upon appearance, in my dating and courtship days.
And here's some wisdom I've shared before, from none other than that great philosopher of the human condition, Jimmy Soul:
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