Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site oddjob.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!oddjob!cs1 From: cs1@oddjob.UUCP (Cheryl Stewart) Newsgroups: net.women,net.politics,net.social Subject: Re: Discrimination against women and statistics Message-ID: <830@oddjob.UUCP> Date: Sat, 29-Jun-85 22:46:47 EDT Article-I.D.: oddjob.830 Posted: Sat Jun 29 22:46:47 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Jun-85 03:39:20 EDT References: <482@ttidcc.UUCP> <8203@ucbvax.ARPA> <8204@ucbvax.ARPA> <581@mtung.UUCP> <405@h-sc1.UUCP> <1862@amdcad.UUCP> Reply-To: cs1@oddjob.UUCP (Cheryl Stewart) Organization: U. Chicago, Astronomy & Astrophysics Lines: 49 Xref: watmath net.women:6167 net.politics:9659 net.social:758 Summary: In article <1862@amdcad.UUCP> phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes: >In article <405@h-sc1.UUCP> desjardins@h-sc1.UUCP (marie desjardins) writes: >>Mobility matters because your husband (working, >>naturally, in a high-paying job) may have to relocate and you need >>to follow him. So why shouldn't the man follow his wife? Well, >>because he has a higher-paying job, naturally. > >Does this mean you're willing to marry a man who makes less money than you? >That you're willing to "marry below your class"? I would suspect many women >are not. I'd be happy to hear if I'm wrong. What I want is a man of equal or higher class (preferably one who's parents are loaded and are willing to pay for the wedding, the down-payment on the house, the honeymoon, etc.) -- a man who is well-educated, thoughtful, witty --- someone who will know instinctively *just* where to find that unique antique umbrella-stand to spruce up the foyer, someone who will be conscientious about corresponding with my relatives and his at holiday time, someone who knows how to be firm but tactful with the servants, who can organize a reasonable social calendar for our family. Of course, he won't want to work, because I'll be the heir apparent to take over his mother's multi- million dollar investment firm when she decides to retire. It will be so nice. It's a shame his father failed to produce any daughters to take over the family business. Oh, well. It's a big responsibility, but *someone* has to take care of their business and their son for them. Have you heard of a rhetorical question? Well, the above was a rhetorical paragraph. Look, if you want to find rich, lazy guys just go to like St. Tropez or Southampton or. Pick him young, impressionable. Your best bet is to get him to drop out of college to follow you. That way, he'll never have had a taste of what it's like to earn his own money, and never having done it, he won't have the confidence to start (after dropping out of school and being techically unemployed for a few years--what is he going to do, flip burgers while you trade commodities?). Make him FEEL his dependence on you while subtly ridiculing any effort he makes to be less dependent. That way you can justify your RIGHT to expect that dinner be waiting for you when you get home from work, that your shirts be ironed, that your children be well-behaved. But first, you have to find the right one. Of course all of your relatives and his relatives will aid you in convincing him that his *real* calling in life is to serve *you* (that is, assuming you can support him in the manner to which he was born--better not go after them TOO rich!). What you want is someone *appropriate*, someone who will not clash with your colleagues' husbands, socially that is. Good luck! Cheryl Stewart --