Well this is my way of re-concilliating with all guppans that thought that I was mean towards them. Now lets all kiss and make up.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/13/opinion/13dowd.html?oref=login
WASHINGTON
A few years ago at a White House Correspondents’ dinner, I met a very beautiful actress. Within moments, she blurted out: “I can’t believe I’m 46 and not married. Men only want to marry their personal assistants or P.R. women.”
I’d been noticing a trend along these lines, as famous and powerful men took up with the young women whose job it was to tend to them and care for them in some way: their secretaries, assistants, nannies, caterers, flight attendants, researchers and fact-checkers.
Women in staff support are the new sirens because, as a guy I know put it, they look upon the men they work for as “the moon, the sun and the stars.” It’s all about orbiting, serving and salaaming their Sun Gods.
In all those great Tracy/Hepburn movies more than a half-century ago, it was the snap and crackle of a romance between equals that was so exciting. Moviemakers these days seem far more interested in the soothing aura of romances between unequals.
In James Brooks’s “Spanglish,” Adam Sandler, as a Los Angeles chef, falls for his hot Mexican maid. The maid, who cleans up after Mr. Sandler without being able to speak English, is presented as the ideal woman. The wife, played by Téa Leoni, is repellent: a jangly, yakking, overachieving, overexercised, unfaithful, shallow she-monster who has just lost her job with a commercial design firm. Picture Faye Dunaway in “Network” if she’d had to stay home, or Glenn Close in “Fatal Attraction” without the charm.
The same attraction of unequals animated Richard Curtis’s “Love Actually,” a 2003 holiday hit. The witty and sophisticated British prime minister, played by Hugh Grant, falls for the chubby girl who wheels the tea and scones into his office. A businessman married to the substantial Emma Thompson falls for his sultry secretary. A writer falls for his maid, who speaks only Portuguese.
(I wonder if the trend in making maids who don’t speak English heroines is related to the trend of guys who like to watch Kelly Ripa in the morning with the sound turned off?)
Art is imitating life, turning women who seek equality into selfish narcissists and objects of rejection, rather than affection.
As John Schwartz of The New York Times wrote recently, “Men would rather marry their secretaries than their bosses, and evolution may be to blame.”
A new study by psychology researchers at the University of Michigan, using college undergraduates, suggests that men going for long-term relationships would rather marry women in subordinate jobs than women who are supervisors.
As Dr. Stephanie Brown, the lead author of the study, summed it up for reporters: “Powerful women are at a disadvantage in the marriage market because men may prefer to marry less-accomplished women.” Men think that women with important jobs are more likely to cheat on them.
“The hypothesis,” Dr. Brown said, “is that there are evolutionary pressures on males to take steps to minimize the risk of raising offspring that are not their own.” Women, by contrast, did not show a marked difference in their attraction to men who might work above or below them. And men did not show a preference when it came to one-night stands.
A second study, which was by researchers at four British universities and reported last week, suggested that smart men with demanding jobs would rather have old-fashioned wives, like their mums, than equals. The study found that a high I.Q. hampers a woman’s chance to get married, while it is a plus for men. The prospect for marriage increased by 35 percent for guys for each 16-point increase in I.Q.; for women, there is a 40 percent drop for each 16-point rise.
So was the feminist movement some sort of cruel hoax? The more women achieve, the less desirable they are? Women want to be in a relationship with guys they can seriously talk to - unfortunately, a lot of those guys want to be in relationships with women they don’t have to talk to.
I asked the actress and writer Carrie Fisher, on the East Coast to promote her novel “The Best Awful,” who confirmed that women who challenge men are in trouble.
“I haven’t dated in 12 million years,” she said drily. “I gave up on dating powerful men because they wanted to date women in the service professions. So I decided to date guys in the service professions. But then I found out that kings want to be treated like kings, and consorts want to be treated like kings, too.”
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single, not ready to mingle
women power!!! 
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^^ Are you OK? 
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Minerva, you are so cute. 
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i dont get the point here? wheres the discussion? and that was the single most pathetic article i have ever read...you owe me 3 mins for wasting my time reading it.
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I don't think the article is very accurate. The amount of "professional" guys I've been introduced to who want "professional" wives (meaning Doctor, Lawyer, Dentist) is overwhelming.
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^ they want professional wives, but are those men happy with their wives? Are those marriages successful?
Details of the study are not given, as usual, so its hard to find out how accurate it is. However, I’ve seen it quite a bit in people. Already in college, guys are eyeing out the girls who are more likely to sit at home for them and give up their jobs when starting a family.
But, its okay to chill out with the more intelligent girls - because they’re such good timepass! 
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No clue PCG, but it's a requirement for quite a few men and their families that the girl be a "professional" and have more than just a BA.
Now, when it comes to having babies, raising children, pampering the hubby and putting their career on hold, I don't know what happens .... :D
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so bimbo's are making a come back? clever women are no longer needed?
damn, make up your mind...
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Miss M, when a man in a high-stress career prefers to have a wife at home, it doesnt necessarily mean that he wants a "bimbo"...nor does it mean that if you're a stay-at-home you have no intelligence!
I was earning 6 figures on wall street for a number of years before I became a stay-at home mom. I dont think I could be classified as a bimbo.
The men who want professional wives are more into money and expensive posessions. Thats their choice, and I'm sure there are any number of women who would be happy to fill the position, have a good career and income for themselves etc etc. But there is nothing wrong with a man who prefers to have a one-income family so that hearth and home are tended to by the wife and Mom. Its just a matter of preference and what your priorities are.
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Mamaof3 chick, i was being sarcastic, i think im old enough to understand the notion of an individuals choice to marry whom they want, based on whatever reasons they have for marrying them.
in all seriousness and personally speaking, i would never object to staying at home once i had children, and i would never judge any woman who choses the same or the opposite. It depends on the individuals circumstance and the lifestyle the have.
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Why what happened Verizon lala? why are you confused?
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About the study... are college boys really mature enough in their decisions and preferences to serve as the basis by which to judge the preferences of grown men in their 30s?
The odd thing about the conclusions drawn from it is that it assumes in all the cases where "powerful" women are not married, it really is because no man wanted them, rather than maybe because they themselves didn't want to get married. Not a very scientific assumption. Sure, the actress wants to get married, and the NYTimes only interviewed a handful of (famous) women who complained they couldn't find a man. But who's to say that in the US and UK some women who have the money to live very well, and who work very hard, just prefer not to get married? The birth rate is falling for a reason you know... "have the fun without the dusting and cleaning and nappy changing" being an appropriate motto! ;)
Also, so what if women with lower IQs are likely to marry more? Could that not mean that they are just dumb enough to say yes to the first idiot who asks them?
Hmm, I am not convinced!
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I mis-read your post. I was not drunk enough.
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I was a powerful single lady, now am a powerful married lady. :D