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Sara Bollman
@SaraBollman
The more I think about this thread, the more I think it’s probably one of the most important things currently on Twitter. Large populations of lonely, celibate people isn’t socially or economically good in any scenario. It’s more likely to be really, really bad.
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Samuel Hammond 🌐🏛
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David Autor's work shows the falling status of men relative to women in the same age cohort, particularly non-college educated men, has contributed to declining male labor force participation, less family formation and a host of other social problems. There's no need for snark. twitter.com/drvolts/status…
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Sara Bollman
@SaraBollman
Failure to see this as much greater than petty competition between genders indicates an incredibly poor understanding of the basic human need for connectedness, on both practical/existential levels + subsequent impact on individual/societal well-being when connections fall apart.
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Sara Bollman
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Back to the issue of gender: The point a lot of people seem to miss is that mismatch in dating/marriage markets is bad for women too. Unless we assume that women aren’t *also* susceptible to unhappiness when celibate and alone like men are, nobody is winning here.
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Sara Bollman
@SaraBollman
To be glib, I don’t imagine that the knowledge of having out-earned their male counterparts is going to offer much consolation to a hoard of 45 y.o. childless cat ladies who 15 years earlier were patting themselves on the back for out-statusing men instead of partnering w/ them.
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Sara Bollman
@SaraBollman
Similarly, I don’t imagine that the knowledge of having “owned” feminists on/offline is going to offer consolation to a hoard of 45 y.o. jobless & disenfranchised males who 15 years earlier gave up even trying to get women/status bc they were convinced the system had been rigged.
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Sara Bollman
@SaraBollman
FWIW, I can see plenty of potential outcomes to this that don’t undermine women’s opportunities for professional achievement, & also don’t obligate them to marry downward. It’s clear most women aren’t intothat, even if male feminists wish to believe otherwise.
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