Marriage: “Ugly Rich Man or Hot Poor Man?”

Then again Suzumiya character was batshit megalomaniac insane.

True, but she had her moments of wisdom. To me it was THOSE moments coupled with her eccentricity in the show that made her the character we all have come to love/hate today.

That quote in particular really struck gold with me, because there's no way she didn't mean 100% of what she said at that given moment giver her current character build up.

well, technically EVERYBODY, not just women, are easily manipulated. Businesses do it in several different ways people don't even notice! Governments of all variety deploy tons of little details from little "catch" words they use (the tax cut is one of the better known ones)to laws that their creators can claim do things they don't. Honestly though, I believe that relationships based on manipulation and deceit aren't long lasting ones, or if they are, they aren't "happy" long lasting relationships.

I know this from the other side. They don't want young women because they could get pregnant and stay home. They don't want mothers with children because children could get sick and a mother could stay home with them because of it.
The world of work is unfair, deal with it. It's difficult for everyone.
Moreover, on one hand, you guys rant that women are gold-diggers. On the other, you're telling them to get out of their jobs. So choose already or stop complaining.
And yes, some people have ridiculous demands but those aren't stupid women, those are stupid people.

That actually makes perfect sense.

In a mate, men look for replication value. Looks.
Women look for survivability value. In past times, this was strength, these days its status and income.

With women entering the work force the balance is completely thrown off.

Without money, us men have nothing. With women taking a massive chunk out of the new world economy, that's now harder for us to obtain.

I should be thankful I am handsome as hell. If I were to earn money, I would be ONE of the men out of every 100,000 that meets a woman's criteria.

With bullshit statistics working against men like this, its a wonderful thing that women are so foolish and easily manipulated...

Which further proves Darwin was right all along.

@Sylar

I don't know what terrible bizarro realm you live in, but everything Rena said about young women and mothers not being favored in job hiring is true where I live as well. I've spoken with business owners who happened to be part time teachers and they say the same thing- they don't want to hire them because the children may make her miss work, or she could very well get pregnant if she's recently married and viola- tons of paid time off AND the company has to hire someone to take her spot while she's out.

So clearly, you must be blind. Or just looking at the wrong place for jobs.

@Sylar

Of course, I agree with that. I don't approve of women taking men as wallets, even less when they earn their own money already.

"Reality" you're talking about applies on your country and few others, not for the whole world. For example, where I live this works different.
Here, when you could get pregnant or you have kids as a woman, you're unwanted material - thus my young women employment argument. I couldn't imagine for it to be different in other countries so, my bad. Here, in some work fields, women are still paid less than men for the same job.
There were also no women rushing to work aggressively in my country in the past. Not so long ago, we were a communist country and everybody had to work, no matter what sex you were, otherwise you were arrested. The economic was driven by state. If I remember correctly, there were also no such things like equality or feministic movements. Women just learned to take care of themselves and to be independent. It's not very common to see such things as housewives here.
Here, only spoiled brats wait what their husbands/boyfriends give them and want to be taken care of.
Of course I know I can't apply this on every state. Especially because we're such a weird country with weird past.
So yeah, I agree that each woman should choose if she wants to sit home and being taken care of or work and being independent, not try to be both at the same time.

Of course, if the economy works that way where you live, then it really doesn't help the whole situation.
The fact that government is doing everything except for supporting families is somewhat common knowledge these days. Here it isn't much better, everything is damn expensive, supporting your family alone is unthinkable. However, I don't think you can stop increasing prices in any way, with women in workforce or without them. But I'm not really interested in economy that much to be able to tell, I admit.

I don't think you got my point Rena. If women weren't in the workforce i will gladly accept that i have to share my money with her, but from the moment she was to be viewed as equal in the employment market as well, she should stop searching for me(or any man) taking care of her.

And since you are a woman i have to tell you that women made no favors to themselves by entering so aggressively in the employment market. At first it looked ideal even for their husbands, they worked got money and the husbands didn't had to give as much at every thing their wifes wanted since they could buy staff for themselves. For women it worked even better. They didn't have to ask their husband and they felt more free and their money worked like extra cash since the man payed for the family expenses and they mostly used their money for personal purchases. It also gave them more freedom to live alone.
Unfortunately for wifes and husbands world over the governments and corporations saw a golden opportunity to make more money out of the money women started earning and they even started to push the idea of women in the workforce but for anything else than their love of equal rights and freedom to women.

Resold?
The prices risen and taxes risen to a level that a family to get by, has to use both salaries. Do you honestly think that if women weren't part of the workforce the price of life would be the same?
I assure that it wouldn't, everything will have been priced under the assumption than a family has one and single income.
Anyway, today for the couple not needing money from both parties, one of the two must have a very high paying job. This resolds in women asking for rare men with very high paying jobs because a normal salary is not good anymore in supporting more that one person.

Don't get me wrong i don't think women shouldn't have the right of employment and we should go back at men ruling all income. I just think it was badly and terribly executed. Our disgusting capitalistic system destroyed the dream of nice equality completely. The way it is now, it works against women and men and especially against families as a whole.

As about young women employment. I don't know what you are talking about. Ether you don't know what you talk about or i am blind, because i have todays city newspaper in-frond of me and only a look at the first page of employment adds i found 15 jobs asking for strictly young women and only 2 jobs for a man or woman. You logic about pregnancy is nice and all but it means shit when the reality is right here in my hand and seems different.