Stop Telling Women Their Most Valuable Asset Is Their Youth

[BadBoy89]

Appearing on FOX to discuss the piece, Geraldo Rivera noted, to stunned female hosts, that what a woman brings to a marriage “more than anything else” is “her youth.”

Her youth?

Yes, “her youth,” Geraldo continued. Because a woman’s youth, he explained, “is a fragile and diminishing resource.”

Geraldo’s logic went like this: If a woman were to invest two precious years into a beta-marriage, and then, God forbid, have her man reject her (his words, not mine), she’ll have wasted her most valuable asset.

Stop telling women their most valuable asset is their youth

Why, in an era when we are succeeding in so many ways, do we buy into sexist tropes about aging?

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I’m 32 (though I’m always tempted to shave a year or two from that number). I’m surrounded by other unmarried women in their 30s who are ambitious, career-driven, attractive.Intellectually, we know that the longer we wait to settle down, the more likely our relationships will be successful.

The thing is, reality no longer conforms to those old tropes. Women now get the majority of college degrees. We have careers. We are living longer than ever. We can freeze our eggs to buy us biological time.

And yet our conception of what makes a woman desirable and valuable in society hasn’t caught up. From every angle, we continue to hear that we need to “rush.” That we should make it easier and more comfortable for the men around us. That our youth — not necessarily even our fertility — is our most valuable asset.

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Thoughts?

 

[Bingo-Player]

Women have hyper commoditised themselves within the dating marketplaces many want the absolute best they can get and will not settle for anything less

This comes at a cost to get the best you have to BE THE BEST

For a woman to be the best option she needs to be as attractive as she possibly can be this is DIRECTLY correlated to her youth and has been since the dawn of time

Kings back In the medieval times wouldn't look twice at a woman over 25 , in fact in a lot of eastern cultures being a single woman over 25 is sacralige

Women can't have it all ways , can't climb the greasy corporate pole , date 1000's of men in your 20's and then suddenly expect to do a complete U turn and become a family woman in your 30's because all of a sudden you realise your value to the opposite sex is dropping

 

[pipeman84]

We can freeze our eggs to buy us biological time.

Oh, that settles it then.
I think femininity (which has a strong correlation to youth) is the most valuable asset.

Geraldo’s logic went like this: If a woman were to invest two precious years into a beta-marriage, and then, God forbid, have her man reject her (his words, not mine), she’ll have wasted her most valuable asset.

It's the femininity that she'll have wasted and the added mileage that's the problem. A divorcee might very well look feminine on the surface (nails done, long hair, slender and so on) but she's lost that innocence which makes young women uniquely attractive.

 

[parabellum]

Women that want to freeze their eggs, without a medical reason to do it. Good riddance. Let them self exit the gene Pool.

 

[Manure Spherian]

For a woman to be the best option she needs to be as attractive as she possibly can be this is DIRECTLY correlated to her youth and has been since the dawn of time

Aside from the context of marriage, hefty amount of unmarried, childless women are a burden on society.

 

[Solomon]

10-15 years from now there will be a lot of women on social media screaming that it's men's fault

 

[Doctor Europeo]

Didnt Aristotle already settled this? Didnt he say women should be married by 18 and men by 35-37? Or is it just a myth?

 

[Slowhandluke]

The tide is slowly turning Even stupid Geraldo Rivera understands it. If I remember correctly, he use to be a big feminist.

 

[taiyuu_otoko]

Intellectually, we know that the longer we wait to settle down, the more likely our relationships will be successful. (We’ve read the studies.)

10-15 years from now there will be a lot of women on social media screaming that it's men's fault

I don't doubt it. They'll claim the patriarchy run media purposely deceived them to wait until it was too late.

They'll even claim that feminism itself is a trick of the patriarchy.

(Which it kind of is...)

 

[The Duke]

When will they ever understand what their true value is? They can't fathom that it's not what they think matters(career, money, etc). Total lack of self awareness and understanding what men find valuable.

Whatever society tells women to do, they do. It's always been this way. The problem with what is being told today isnt beneficial to top men.

 

[Fortune_favors_the_bold]

They brag about their studies and intelligence so much yet fail to understand that no man cares about their degree or social position.

That would be like a man trying to convince women that they have to get wet cause his call of duty clan is ranked top 5 on steam games.

 

[Smok1nAce]

In general, tell woman what they want to hear.

 

[Hal9000]

I'm not sure there's evidence out there that women who wait until their 30s to marry are any more likely to have a successful marriage than women who get married in their 20s.

I'm sure it helps them feel better about their current situations but a woman who has slept around and actively worked not to get married (because any decent woman would have had dozens of potential candidates by their mid 30s) for 15-20 years has probably passed her peak in pretty much every way. The concept of a woman who has been with too many men being unable to properly pair bond with just one man is a real thing.