I wonder if Blondie knows that her video is being used in this way.
That reaction video came out in November 2023. She likely recorded it in Sept-Oct 2023. I think she knows that about this video and how she got roasted in the comments on it.
There is an amazing cluelessness with the older generations about why their sons/grandsons can't get a woman - "just get a good job, and the gals will come to you"
When the Boomer men were young adults, the idea that you put in quotes still worked. I think the idea was more relevant for the earlier Boomers (1946-1956 births) than the later Boomers (1957-1964 births).
The idea of a middle class or upper middle class job helping a man to get women is only relevant when women aren't planning to be employed for most of their lives. When women aren't planning a life with employment from their late teens/early 20s though their 50s/60s, they would become more economically dependent upon a man.
In the 20th Century, the women of the GI Generation (1910s-early 1920s births) and the Silent Generation (late 1920s-1945 births) were more financially dependent on men as they prioritized marriage and motherhood. It was around the 1960s-1970s, when late Silent Generation women and early Boomer women started to work and become less dependent upon males. In fiction, "Mad Men" character Peggy Olson (born 1939) was a great fictional representation of this as an earlier era working woman who was a white collar trailblazer of her era. A Peggy Olson was somewhat out of the norm in the 1960s but women graduating college in the 1980s (late Boomers and early Gen X'ers) would have adopted the spirit of her fictional character that was rooted in some degree of reality.
The women born from the late 1930s - mid 1950s who began to work (late Silents and early Boomers) were raised to respect men and did have somewhat of a concept of gender roles. The women of the late 1930s to mid 1950s who began to work were on the leading edge of a movement that really took off with later Boomers and Generation X. Women born in the 1960s-1970s were not raised to have the same level of respect for men and had less of a concept of gender roles. I was born in the 1980s and have mainly interacted with 1980s born women. 1980s born women were not raised with any respect for men.
In the clip from "That 70s Show" below, there's a fictional representation of an interaction from 1977 of high schoolers who I think are part of the Class of 1978, meaning they would have been born in 1959-1960 (later Boomers). In this clip, a boyfriend-girlfriend duo of characters (Eric and Donna) are arguing about what parenthood would look like in the future for them if they were to stay together. Eric envisions having a stay-at-home mom for a wife and Donna envisions herself as a working mom. At one point in this, Donna's mom tells Donna that she and Eric are not likely to ever become parents together as they will likely break up before this is a relevant consideration.
That TV show was a fictional representation of life in a smaller town in Middle America (Wisconsin) in the late 1970s.
The main lesson to get from that clip is that the times were changing for the later Boomers. Later Boomers and then earlier Generation X women were not planning to be economically dependent on their husbands.
As a result, more women started to get bachelor's degrees and then women got their own jobs (usually white collar, office jobs). Once women did this, the idea of selecting a man for mating purposes became outdated.
I think
@MatureDJ is an early Generation X'er (Gen X started with the 1965 births). He has mentioned being in high school during the 1980s.
@MatureDJ would have been in the age group of the earlier men who would not have found this advice relevant as young adults. Early Generation X males born from 1965-1971 would not have been able to attract women solely on their jobs as young adults during the late 1980s - mid 1990s.
More average GI, Silent Gen, and earlier Boomers could have used their middle class or upper middle class jobs to help seduce women. Now, that advice doesn't work.
When I was in high school in the late 1990s-early 2000s, most of my female classmates were planning a life where they'd be working for ~40 years of their lives. Most were planning to either get a good trade certification or go get a bachelor's degrees. I think more of my high school classmate females were planning the bachelor's degree route. These were early Millennials.
Very few jobs today can help Millennial and Gen Z men seduce women. They would have to be jobs with salaries in the Top 2% (98th-99th percentile).
Jobs in the 55th-80th percentile (middle and upper middle class jobs) aren't going to help a man seduce. A lot of college educated women already have jobs in that percentile.
I think men are reacting to the sudden social de-sexualization by just becoming like "bachelor lions" - i.e., go run down a gazelle once a week (get a stupid part-time job), and spend the rest of the time sleeping or licking his balls.
Getting a part time job, playing video games, sleeping, and watching porn/masturbating is not a path that leads men to getting poontang. The theoretical male behavior you describe would result in a male being a likely incel.
A man with only a part time job likely lives with a parent/parents. Men start getting penalized in the sexual marketplace around their mid-20s for living with parents and having economic dependency on parents.
@BPH has experienced this to some degree in his life, but he's been able to get some short term sex because he's 6'0" and fit. More average tier men are not going to experience this as a 22-34 year old man living with a parents or parents, having a part time job, and being economically dependent on aging parents.
