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- From: mec6@quads.uchicago.edu (rini)
- Subject: Re: liberal men are a hot item?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.173158.8713@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 17:31:58 GMT
- Lines: 89
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- schultz@unixg.ubc.ca (Stewart Schultz) writes:
- >mec6@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
-
- >>Just some obvious notes. First, it's not really clear that
- >>the women who prefer "masculinity" are the same that prefer
- >>"liberal" men.
- >
- >I think you're reaching here...would you also say that the men who
- >prefer 'beauty' are not necessarily the same as those who prefer
- >'conservative' women?
-
- Sure, why not? It's maybe slightly less likely, though, since the
- conservative ideal of women seems to be keen on beauty, whereas in
- my example, the liberal ideal of men does not seem to be keen on
- masculinity.
-
- >It's clear that political affiliation is low on the list of desiderata
- >for both sexes, when choosing an intimate partner.
-
- Maybe because we know that there are millions and millions of people
- who share our political party -- it's not a very useful disciminator.
- It's still true, however, that cross-party marriages are fairly rare.
- (There are a couple in my family, however.)
-
- >>Second, it could be that there are a large number
- >>of women who want "successful" men who *also* hold egalitarian
- >>sex-role ideals. I don't think there is a big contradiction there.
- >
- >But a 'successful' man with not-so-egalitarian ideals will win out most
- >of the time over an 'unsuccessful' man with egalitarian ideals.
-
- Could be. Maybe so. I don't dispute that.
-
- >In fact, your statistics also imply that 'conservative women are a hot
- >item,' but I don't see you pushing that idea here.
-
- Oh, sorry. Equal time and all that. Okay: conservative women are
- a hot item!!! There are lot's of men out there that want conservative
- women!! If you want to cook, clean, and do the dishes, you've got a
- good chance of getting married!!!
-
- >Why aren't you
- >saying that there's a 'large number of men who want "beautiful" women
- >who *also* hold conservative political ideals'?
-
- Okay: "There's a large number of men who want 'beautiful' women who
- *also* hold conservative political ideals." (There's probably an
- infinite number of other statements that I agree with that I'm not
- making either.... Sorry.. time is short, and all that.)
-
- >Wouldn't that be a de
- >facto trivialization of the beauty myth? Isn't the symmetrical claim a
- >subtle brushoff of the success myth?
-
- I don't understand what you are saying here.
-
- >>Anyway, I don't think anybody's stastistics have really contradicted
- >>anybody else's. I'm think we're both right, myself.
- >
- >Well, all you've shown is that there's a mean difference between the
- >sexes on general questions of division of labor; how and at what point
- >these differences come into play in an intimate relationship is still an
- >open question IMO. I'm saying that they usually don't become an
- >important issue until fairly well into a relationship, often after
- >several years. That's where the numbers conflict.
-
- Yep. Open question. Big, open, interesting,... question.
-
- >It's an interesting question, but I think it would be news to most
- >liberal men :-).
-
- Maybe. From my own experience (that is, this is not scientifically
- valid data here) the vast majority of "liberal" men I know are
- either married or seriously involved. I have a handful of male
- friends who are traditionalists, and they are all still looking.
- (While my female friends and I say, "David's nice and all, but I
- just couldn't deal with having a relationship with somebody who
- thinks that way about sex roles!!") Keep in mind that the people
- I know are a relatively homogenous group of overly-educated,
- financially stable people, so we can posit that effects of income
- and education (male "success") are controlled.
-
- It's my own observation that "studs" tend to get a lot of dates,
- especially in high school, but the mild-mannered "sensitive men"
- prevail later on and in the marriage market. (This is, of course,
- a function of education and income too, no doubt.)
-
- rini
-
-