On Thu, Nov 17, the New York Observer was quoted as saying:
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> "The whole idea that all women in New York only want to date up is a little
> maddening," said a copywriter in her mid-30's, who lives in Park Slope and
> married a carpenter last year
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> A high-school teacher now married to a computer programmer, Allyson is only
> 30, but a wizened veteran of the pleasures and perils of dating down.
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Oy, talk about the exceptions that prove that rule that women don't date down. Forget that they're so ashamed that they don't want their name used. The more important fact is that this wouldn't even count as dating down if a man did it because *the mate has a real job and make just as much money as you do.*
This article mistakes dating down as marrying people who aren't as smart as you. But women have been doing that since the dawn of time. Marrying down is someone who makes less money than you and always will so that you will always be in part or in whole supporting them. If you want someone whose life revolves around you, that's the price.
Michael