Why Is It So Hard To Find A Good Black Man To Marry?
I.
From The Economist:
Imagine that the world consists of 20 men and 20 women. Since the numbers are even, everyone can find a partner. But what happens if you take away one man? You might not think this would make much difference. You would be wrong... With 20 women pursuing 19 men, one woman faces the prospect of spinsterhood. So she ups her game. Perhaps she dresses more seductively. Perhaps she makes an extra effort to be obliging. Somehow or other, she "steals" a man from one of her fellow women. That newly single woman then ups her game, too, to steal a man from someone else. A chain reaction ensues...
1 in 9 black men in their 20s is in jail. And only a third of black women 30-44 are married. The study, Male Incarceration, The Marriage Market, and Female Outcomes, from which the above hypothetical is drawn estimates that for every percent of incarcerated men, there's a 2.4% drop in marriage rates.
You might say that the educated black women are not likely to marry the kind of men who are being incarcerated. Maybe, but besides the point: the key statistic is that 96% of black women marry black men, and if 10% are in jail, well, what is she supposed to do?
II.
Actually, it's not besides the point, it is the point. Other studies have tried to correlate the quality of eligible men to the overall marriage rate-- i.e. where are all the "good" black men? (Un)Surprisingly, they have mostly found little overall effect, with no explanation. In a normally functioning economy with a dwindling supply, women would be predicted to... settle. But the marriage rate would be high.
This paper is unique, however, because it correlates the actual number of men-- indeed, men precisely not high on the list of choice mates. Their absence has an effect not on the women, but on the men. There's less incentive to try harder. Or try at all.
Here's the missing sentence from The Economist quote:
A chain reaction ensues.Before long, every woman has to try harder, and every man can relax a little.
III.
Do I need to bring up the fact that a lot of (black) people spend months, sometimes years, in jail-- pre trial? Only to have a bench trial with a public defender who does not know their name, and who urges them to take the plea with time served?
IV.
Here's an illustrative example: 70% of black babies are born out of wedlock. They're obviously not all sired by inmates, so how does this happen? According to the study, the decreased pool of men- any men-- means the ones left become more valuable independent of their actual "quality" (as defined by behavior eligibility, etc.)
"I thought I was a catch," sighs an attractive black female doctor at a hospital in Washington, DC. Black men with good jobs know they are "a hot commodity", she observes. When there are six women chasing one man, "It's like, what are you going to do extra, to get his attention?" Some women offer sex on the first date, she says, which makes life harder for those who prefer to combine romance with commitment.
V.
There's also the problem of contagion. A black baby may be born into a loving set of educated parents, but what is the effect of simply knowing that a close relative-- say an uncle-- has been in the joint? Or, more commonly, that there are female relatives who have no choice but to raise a child on their own; and there are male relatives who don't have to live with their kids?
When a parent does something, it makes that action a potentiality in the world of the child. A parent who publishes a book-- even one that no one ever reads-- has, at least, placed writing a book into the range of possibilities. It works both ways.
A.
Behavioral economics is so much fun because by reducing the human condition to the impulses of inanimate objects, or at best rhesus monkeys, you get to ignore all that confusing stuff, like pornography, and its obviously non-existent effect on human desires. "They were maximizing a utility function!" And how.
Anyone else a little nervous about reducing black men to a commodity with binary utility? No? Just me? Sweet.
B.
If you didn't like that thought, you're going to hate this one: why does the black female doctor quoted above think she's "a catch?" Don't yell at me, all Glocks down-- what makes her a catch?
Because she's a doctor? But I don't know (m)any white women who think being a doctor increases their chances of finding a husband, makes them more appealing. Go over to the med school and ask the women what they think they're doing to their marrigeability. "A lot of men don't want a woman who's away all the time." "They're threatened." Or, my personal favorite: "oh my god, all they want are the nurses."
The answer is that since black women have been able to take on the very qualities they want in a man, they assume that the men would value these things in the same way. You may need to revisit that assumption.
C.
You may not be interested in TV, but TV is certainly interested in you. If black men of a certain type are taking their cues from media images, it's safe to assume the same for women. Right?
So what do we have? The unique, mandatory role for all black female personalities-- from Oprah to Wanda Sykes-- is to say "oh no you didn't" and move her neck back and forth sideways. Each woman may do it to varying degrees, and they are certainly allowed to do other things, but it is mandatory that they "keep it real" at least once per broadcast.
For fiction-- always more powerful-- we have: the spectrum of hoes in music videos; there's the strong, quietly suffering, approaching middle age and beyond, and, of course, solitary black woman; and the educated and attractive black woman-- wherein "educated" is a descriptive proxy for "controlling" or "insane bitch." Something on the order of Why Did I Get Married Too?- let's-break-some-shit-because-he-lied bananas.
Let's say that media portrayals of "educated black women that can't get a man to commit"-- that's a brand-- storming over to his job and smashing things because of alleged infidelity does NOT make real women more likely to do this themselves. Fine. What I am certain it does do, however, is make that behavior less terrifying to black men. "Oh well, that's just what they do. She'll get over it."
The First Lady isn't any of these stereotypes, but suffers from the problem of being an actual person and not on CSI or a reality show, and thus can't be a role model. Sorry, I don't make the rules. So young girls can choose between Anita Van Buren or Omarosa. I'll say what you're all thinking: yikes.
...they're just like us?...But aren't the black women in prime time strong and noble, even if there are only four types? On every medical drama on TV-- ER, Private Practice, Grey's, etc-- the only attractive, well educated females who aren't serially bedding/flooring men with Wicked rapidity are the black women. Every week, the black women struggle with/over the same man; and those men are always the best at what they do, the chiefs, the leaders. At some point, the men inevitably fall for a white woman. Not permanently, of course; nothing is permanently on TV.
Unfortunately for black women, these shows are scripted by white women. If black girls are watching TV, then they're getting their options from white women. The message is: our lot is to have a series of chaotic relationships in the search of a non-existent ideal; yours is to suffer over one.
IV.
The cycle-- for blacks and whites-- only ever gets broken in one of two ways. One is that this generation grows old and dies, and the next one gets its shot.
The second is that generation 1 stops raising generation 2 by proxy. Accept that what you do is more important than who you tell them you are. "I'm taking you to church right after I finish yelling at your mother." Ok, Dad. I'll be in the car.
V.
If a paucity of black men cause women to "up their game," settle, and be alone; and men to assume a cavalier, non-committal posture, one might ask what happens to a society with too many men.
Apparently, not the opposite. Why hasn't it become true that Chinese women are protected, elevated, catered to? That Chinese men have to "up their game" or settle?
It's an interesting question, one that will likely require a Chinese academic researcher to perform a similar study in her own country on her own people.
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April 15, 2010 10:05 AM | Posted by : | Reply
I just read about this on reddit today. Sweet!
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April 15, 2010 10:23 AM | Posted by : | Reply
"Imagine that the world consists of 20 men and 20 women. Since the numbers are even, everyone can find a partner."
So it'd be 18 men and 18 women looking since, statistically, 2 of each gender would be somewhere on the GLBT spectrum. I'm surprised the Economist uses such a blunt, heteronormative set up to make the point. But whatevs.
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April 15, 2010 11:34 AM | Posted, in reply to , by : | Reply
I had the same thought too. Not to mention I know people who have "open relationships" or are bisexual. Once you take all that into account, it doesn't remain as a simple 20 men and 20 women = 20 monogamous relationships equation.
Also (and this is 2nd hand, so I'm not sure how accurate it is) I've heard that women in China ARE valued highly as a "marriage commodity." (Just not as babies apparently...)
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April 15, 2010 11:39 AM | Posted by : | Reply
Fascinating.
It would help if women - black and white - would stop trying to invent demand through 'telling them what you are' and try getting down to some real work, where 'work' is not based on a television/movie model. This isn't the movie Rudy, where someone is filming your hard work, with a soundtrack sweeping in the background. Horrendously unglamorous, maybe boring perhaps, but ultimately more attractive, in my opinion. That goes for guys too (or especially).
When my girlfriends bitch about men (and lack thereof), I tell them to stop focusing on the male supply. Instead start doing the things that are engaging and produce some level of happiness, no matter who is along for the ride. Try a dance class. Cook a few pies. Whatever. Happy people with full lives tend to be the most attractive. The barrier to this approach is the perception that a decline in self-promotion can lead to one being mistaken for boring.
"...accept that what you do is more important than who you tell them you are." Best thing I've read all day.
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April 15, 2010 11:39 AM | Posted by : | Reply
Why the asymmetry in what happens when there are too many men? My guess is that they aren't culturally expected to compete on "game". In a very-recently-third-world country, they compete on money and power.
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April 15, 2010 11:57 AM | Posted by : | Reply
III: Yes you did need to mention that.
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April 15, 2010 12:01 PM | Posted by : | Reply
Howdy, Ben! (cue ominous music ... or are we the same commenter?)
-'Anyone else a little nervous about reducing black men to a commodity with binary utility?'
Fair enough. I'm sure that the authors would tell you that each individual is a complex array of thoughts, beliefs, feelings, experiences, desires, and chemical impulses. But Mr. Charles (Kofi-Charles?) works for the NBER. While that institution isn't always on the mark (low interest rates forever? can't go wrong!), it at least aspires to be policy relevant. If policy is *supposed* to solve problems, it makes sense to figure out how big a problem is, and it's difficult to make a dataset that reflects complexity and remains useful. Analysis is impossible if some kind of focus isn't built into the data collection. As a consequence, we'll probably never know who, among the vast numbers of hemorrhoid sufferers, has the most complete Led Zeppelin collection, even if that might just be the right question to ask. If you want to count them, you need to reduce 'them' to something countable.
(Mr. Charles is also black, and he appears to be more than just Obama-census black. It's not unlikely that he's related to several of the commodity units with binary utility he's counted. It's a reasonable bet that he deserves the benefit of the doubt.)
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April 15, 2010 12:04 PM | Posted by : | Reply
This all very interesting and all, but you seriously buried the lede.
How do I go about getting introduced to all these single female doctors who are having trouble finding mates?
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April 15, 2010 1:31 PM | Posted by : | Reply
But I don't know (m)any white women who think being a doctor increases their chances of finding a husband, makes them more appealing.
Your statement is so myopic it makes me wonder if this blog was written after a night of too many single malt whiskeys. Do you really think (m)any women are going to volunteer information even close to that anecdotal story (unattributed, btw)? You know ... in passing?
Gee, Alone, outside this article, which uses an economist's (!) riff (arbitrary intro of women pursuing men for marriage as an example-ignoring all mediating variables by the way) and the author of this article in a mag called "The Economist," how many African-American women do you know? I mean, seriously know? Is this what you'd call ... oh, I don't know ... a representative sampling?
Even though the unattributed money quote
I thought I was a catch,” sighs an attractive black female doctor at a hospital in Washington, DC.is unattributed, I'd guess it came from the hard science of Audrey Chapman
a relationship counsellor and the author of several books with titles such as “Getting Good Loving”. Her advice to single black women is pragmatic: love yourself, communicate better and so on.
And so on, indeed, Alone. And on and on and so on, indeed.
Your post conflates this soft quote with the study you cite at the beginning. That's either poor or misleading writing. But if you were to write it more clearly, your lede would be destroyed. That would be unfortunate, indeed. Vonnegut needs a rewrite: "And so it stays."
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April 15, 2010 2:37 PM | Posted, in reply to , by : | Reply
Facebook. Twitter. And if all else fails, get sick.
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April 15, 2010 3:34 PM | Posted by : | Reply
So the lyric should go, "If you like it I better pray you put a ring on it."
This is clearly an example of systemic racism dating back eons. What's wrong with black women finding white or Asian men? Why does anyone care what color they're fucking in the first place? In a few generations we'll all be brown to some extent so this blacks for blacks business is only furthering future racial conflicts along color borders. Unless we keep fucking till we're all the same color (or our personalities stop being copies of copies of media) we'll just keep fighting the same boring battles.
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April 15, 2010 4:05 PM | Posted by : | Reply
Before you consider dating a doctor, this might be helpful.
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April 15, 2010 5:03 PM | Posted by : | Reply
From an evolutionary and economic perspective, it's been argued that women would fare best under polygamy. This allows multiple women to share the genes and resources of a single "alpha" male, instead of "settling" for the leftovers. Married men with kept women are a demonstration of the idea that half of the king is better than all of the pauper. This is the worst situation for most men, however, which is arguably why men have outlawed it.
Alone's point about the math is true, regardless of how you spin it. It's a lot like the labor market. If there are fewer accountants than accounting jobs, accountants can be pickier. From their perspective, getting a job is easy, so they can exert less effort finding and maintaining a job, and may switch jobs more frequently. There's simply less competition.
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April 15, 2010 5:13 PM | Posted by : | Reply
I knew you were going to get called a racist just for writing this blog post. But really, who cares about black people? Why does 13% of the population take up 50% or more of our attention? Obama is simply a manifestation of our obsessive desire to relieve our guilt of feeling that we are racist.
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April 15, 2010 5:39 PM | Posted by : | Reply
what is the effect of simply knowing that a close relative-- say an uncle-- has been in the joint? Or, more commonly, that there are female relatives who have no choice but to raise a child on their own
True, and hopeless. Even if some percentage of the group manage to define their own reality, the rest of the group is still enforcing the status quo. They may be able to publish a book, but they can't get their peers to read it. It reminds me of bloggers who rail against the promotion of skinny girls as the attractive ideal. You can rail all you want, maybe even get people to agree with you, but it doesn't change the fact that guys pass on you because you're a fattie. Like he said, only an entire cultural shift can touch that. How long does that take?
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April 15, 2010 5:50 PM | Posted, in reply to , by : | Reply
Obama is simply a manifestation of our obsessive desire to relieve our guilt of feeling that we are racist.
It certainly hasn't hurt him. Still, Republican as I am, I think Obama was simply the more articulate, charismatic, plausible choice. Would Alan Keyes or Jesse Jackson have had a chance? Was McCain a better alternative? Besides, the presidency is somewhat of a emotional role. How else did Bush get elected? I'll be more impressed when we have a black Fed Chief.
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April 15, 2010 8:14 PM | Posted by : | Reply
Unfortunately for black women, these shows are scripted by white women.
Are you calling Shonda Rhimes white?
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April 16, 2010 1:09 AM | Posted, in reply to , by : | Reply
Are you calling Shonda Rhimes white?
No, but I'm calling her one of three or four Black women writing for television.
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April 16, 2010 11:49 AM | Posted, in reply to , by : | Reply
From an evolutionary and economic perspective, it's been argued that women would fare best under polygamy. This allows multiple women to share the genes and resources of a single "alpha" male,
Yes. That makes sense if (1) there's a measurable teleology in evolution and (2) one can always infer genes from behavior.
If the overall goal of evolution is producing a stronger (smarter, whatever) ape, and the stronger, smarter ape will always climb to pack leadership, yes, you're right.
On the other hand, if evolution has no clear goal, if the goals change with time (changing environment), then it becomes hard to offer a judgement on what "being better off from an evolutionary viewpoint" means.
Besides, if pack leadership ("alpha male") was the sole determinant of sexual attraction, our group of apes would soon evolve into an ultraviolent, brutish species. It's really not clear how an inclination to cooperate or even belong to a group could have evolved from that.
What I'm trying to say here is that (1) what you said fails to be even a coherent hypothesis and (2) genetic diversity is important to group fitness -- because of the complexity of the "fitness function", which has many local optima, and because endogamy causes problems. So we've evolved, as humans, on a number of different characters: some of us are stronger, some of us are smarter, some of us are OCD and somehow make the world safer, some of us are raving lunatics, like Socrates, and invent the idea of "knowledge".
And if you want to talk economics, wanna start with the efficiency gains from the division of labor between many different "kinds" of "beta" males?
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April 16, 2010 12:57 PM | Posted, in reply to , by : | Reply
Anon - "From an evolutionary and economic perspective, it's been argued that women would fare best under polygamy. This allows multiple women to share the genes and resources of a single "alpha" male,"
I agree with SyntaxTree.
I love it when people whip out evolution with no regard for how things actually work in nature and who think polygamy automatically means one guy with lots of wives. (Darwin's survival of the fittest doesn't mean the strongest or most brutal and rapacious, despite how many people have tried to use this misunderstanding to promote their own shitty, antisocial actions and economic greed.) Also, from both an economic and evolutionary perspective, women are better off with many husbands (multiple incomes/resources all directed towards her offspring, sperm competition that ensures that the best sperm wins). The main purpose of the alpha male is to protect the tribe from attack, and once someone better for the job comes along he's generally kicked out of the tribe to wander alone or hang out with other old Alphas. Non-alpha males not only sire and help raise offspring, they also usually remain with the tribe until they die. Female chimps actively go out of their way to get it on with non-Alpha males.
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April 16, 2010 2:37 PM | Posted by : | Reply
"Unfortunately for black women, these shows are scripted by white women. If black girls are watching TV, then they're getting their options from white women."
Vs.
"But if you want to say that narcissism didn't play the crucial role because-- I'm white, or single, or drunk; then you're trapped in the generational circuit of illogicity that is the very point of this blog."
Ideas, not identities, right?
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April 16, 2010 3:41 PM | Posted by : | Reply
I'm surprised it's not more frequent to see black women dating outside of their pigmentation level. It seems to me that black women in interracial couples are very rare.
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April 16, 2010 6:21 PM | Posted, in reply to , by : | Reply
I think you mean "racial solidarity" not "racism" given the context, but sure what's the difference?
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April 16, 2010 6:42 PM | Posted, in reply to , by : | Reply
Anon - "It seems to me that black women in interracial couples are very rare."
Not in Canada but I suspect things are a bit different up here than in the US. Racism certainly exists here but interracial dating and marriage isn't a big deal generally speaking.
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April 16, 2010 11:44 PM | Posted by : | Reply
Do read the Chapter "Is Divorce Over-rated" in "The Logic of Life" by Tim Harford. He uses much better examples to illustrate the idea of scarcity power.
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April 17, 2010 9:13 AM | Posted by : | Reply
I think it's interesting this study came out of Taiwan, when Taiwan and China have huge sex imbalances owing to their abortion rate and female infanticide.
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April 17, 2010 10:33 AM | Posted, in reply to , by : | Reply
In the general population, most white males get their idea of what black women are like from the same place TLP speculates black girls get their ideas of what black women are supposed to be like. Since white males aren't any more inclined to put up with ONSD behavior, let alone WDIGM behavior, than anybody else and don't have the cultural pressure black males do to put up with it, they have a lot less interest in initiating such relationships.
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April 17, 2010 12:53 PM | Posted by : | Reply
Brainchild-
I'm the same anon from before wondering why black women are rare in interracial couples, and I am Canadian! I agree that it is not frowned on, and that racism is not that common in Canada.
I'm also not saying black woman - non-black guy relationships don't exist. Obviously they do. They just seem less common than other interracial pairings.
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April 17, 2010 1:56 PM | Posted by : | Reply
I wish someone in the comments ran along with the last paragraph. I'd be very interested in all the insights.
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April 17, 2010 6:10 PM | Posted, in reply to , by : | Reply
What you observe depends on where in Canada you live.
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April 17, 2010 6:35 PM | Posted, in reply to , by : | Reply
Information addict - True, Halifax has a pretty ugly history of segregation and there's certainly racism of various kinds across Canada. Particularly against First Nations peoples. Anyway, it's not uncommon to see mixed race couples in Montreal and it's not rare to see a white man with a woman of another race. It doesn't mean there isn't racism here, there most definitely is xenophobia of various kinds, it's just different and less overt than it is in the US.
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April 20, 2010 10:47 AM | Posted, in reply to , by : | Reply
On the other hand, if evolution has no clear goal, if the goals change with time (changing environment), then it becomes hard to offer a judgement on what "being better off from an evolutionary viewpoint" means.
True, evolution isn't an entity with an agenda, it's just the term we give to the change we see. Evolution in animals is largely a sexual process, though, and thus one of the key factors in its course are the choices females make in mates. Do we assume that these choices are random? If they're not, what determines them? In humans, anthropologists can attempt to examine these choices. What they seem to find is that women seek mates with obvious resources and power over more nebulous values of "diversity." I'm not making this up. It's entirely possible that they're wrong or using subjective yardsticks, though. People do that.
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April 20, 2010 12:34 PM | Posted, in reply to , by : | Reply
Anon - "What they seem to find is that women seek mates with obvious resources and power over more nebulous values of "diversity." I'm not making this up."
Actually, that's not what studies find at all - you really are making stuff up or relying upon clichés not science. Women are sexually and romantically attracted to men based on smell not bank accounts, and what kind of men we're attracted to (hyper-masculine alpha male or a beta male) depends on where we are in our cycle. Sure some women and men will sleep with people they're not sexually or emotionally attracted to for money. I guess the people paying out cold hard cash for sex prefer to believe that the other person is actually sexually attracted to them!
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April 20, 2010 4:10 PM | Posted, in reply to , by : | Reply
So love potion No. 9 won't be nearly as effective as 1 - 28 depending on the time of the month?
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April 22, 2010 12:50 AM | Posted, in reply to , by : | Reply
Until those with bank accounts figure out how to reporodcue the smell.
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April 22, 2010 2:32 AM | Posted by : | Reply
The number one thing mothers can do to help their daughters marry better is to make sure they are on birth control until after they are married and prepared to raise children. I don't know any successful man that would marry a women with multiple kids by multiple fathers.
The number two thing is to cut off bad branches of the family tree. I had a relative that was a drug dealer. I haven't talked to him in years. He wouldn't be allowed in my house for any reason. I've seen several families destroyed by allowing criminal relatives to live with them.
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April 23, 2010 12:57 PM | Posted by : | Reply
I read both this blog post and the article in The Economist. I think that they both have their truths and biases. I don't think that you are racist for writing this (thank you btw for doing so), but I think you (and a lot of these postees for that matter) nneed to talk to more black women about what's going on if you really want to know. We don't bite BTW.
As a pretty well educated and uppity black woman I have noticed that there a dearth of black men that are my socioeconomic equal, however I have had no trouble finding partners, a loving/lasting relationship I do not have, but partners I find when I'm ready. I haven't dated a black guy in 5 years, and there was a 3 year period where I didn't date another American.
Have I given up on Black men? No, but I have no qualms about dating outside of my race either. Many of my friends (also Black women) are also currently in relationships with men of other races as well (I can site at least 5 cases off hand). One of the great things about being Black is that I always will be, no matter who I date or where I go, and that in and of it self is liberating. I am black, my children will be Black, and so will their children.
It is a shame that so much of my self development has been overcoming the stereotypes of what I am supposed to be, but who doesn't have to overcome those things? It's called being a person I think. We're all just trying to put these puzzle pieces together.
And now for my obligatory keeping it real moment: "I'll be laid up with that 'white devil' before I settle."
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May 16, 2010 3:55 PM | Posted by : | Reply
this is too funny, what will happen is that the guys would get together and make a deal to get with the finest gal. The ones who agree will be there, the others who dont want to share will decide to get his own and the lesser defined beauties may have no takers at all.
some men want their ladies to take care of them like their mamas; this is any race. I have proof.
the truth is that we have many black men locked up reducing the avaiability of working men when they come out because it is hard to find a job.
The media does affect the culture
and the vunerable kids will latch on as if the song is about them and it is not.
and black men are falsely accused of a crime they didnt commit or even admit to
and that child can be affected positively or negatively by that extended family member. watch your children.
I have lived in both arenas and I am a black sister. I have learned a long time ago not to believe the hype and dont allow your kids to believe the hype.
Im still laughing!!
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May 23, 2010 2:01 AM | Posted by : | Reply
Anecdotally, China was a matriarchal culture, to what extent that may have changed I have no idea, but there is most certainly still a connection with the culturally manufactured scarcity of adult females.
This is a Russian language classic, wherein ethology giving a culturally independent view is quite useful, and is also very entertaining reading.
THE TREATISE OF LOVE,
as it is recognized by awful bore
http://protopop.byethost2.com/treatise.html
From the author: This is a manual for young people who are puzzled and exhausted by the oddity of love. The instinctive basics of human conjugal behavior as a biological species are examined. There is a brief review of biological presuppositions at the beginning, followed by scrutinizing the instinctive criteria for choice of a marriage partner for people, and practical advice. And in conclusion there is an ethological review of instinctive behavioral motivations of people.
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If they're using the Bible, then homosexuality is wrong.
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I think you're misinterpreting the statements of the female medical students. When they refer to "all they want are the nurses" they are not referring to men in general; they are referring to the male medical students.
Thus, while it may be true that male medical students do not want to marry a female medical student for the aforementioned reasons, a female medical student (or doctor) is very attractive to a large segment of the general male population.
Of course, these female doctors have very little interest in the non doctor/lawyer/investment banker crowd. This does not, however, lessen the interest that Jim the mechanic and Bob the middle manager would, hypothetically, have in the black female doctor mentioned in the article.
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