{"id":18926,"date":"2025-08-07T18:48:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T18:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18926"},"modified":"2025-08-07T18:48:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T18:48:36","slug":"the-online-rights-fairy-tale-gender-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18926","title":{"rendered":"The Online Right’s Fairy-Tale Gender Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“”Overwhelmingly, it turns out that the men with the most relationship options (wealthier, higher-social-status men) marry women similar in age to them and with high educational attainment,” writes demographer Lyman Stone in an article<\/a> published this week for the Institute for Family Studies. “Relationships with large age gaps are more common for low-income men than for high-income men.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stone found that, contrary to stereotypes that proliferate online, the wealthier a man is, the more likely it is that his wife has a graduate degree and the less likely it is that there is a considerable age gap between them. Further, high-earning men were mostly married to high-earning women. The average wife of a top 1 percent\u2013earning man also earned over $100,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The simplest explanation for these trends,” Stone wrote, “is that high-earning men who have more romantic options prefer to marry women who are more like a peer. When men have power to influence their mate options, they tend to use that power to find a peer-age woman for companionship and partnership in life.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

yet there’s a coterie of tweets\u2014and online personalities\u2014devoted to insisting that high-achieving men find high-achieving women repulsive and instead choose to marry from America’s veritable cornucopia of smokin’ hot Applebee’s waitresses.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“”Overwhelmingly, it turns out that the men with the most relationship options (wealthier, higher-social-status men) marry women similar in age to them and with high educational attainment,” writes demographer Lyman Stone in an article published this week for the Institute for Family Studies. “Relationships with large age gaps are more common for low-income men than for high-income men.”<\/p>\n

Stone found that, contrary to stereotypes that proliferate online, the wealthier a man is, the more likely it is that his wife has a graduate degree and the less likely it is that there is a considerable age gap between them. Further, high-earning men were mostly married to high-earning women. The average wife of a top 1 percent\u2013earning man also earned over $100,000.<\/p>\n

“The simplest explanation for these trends,” Stone wrote, “is that high-earning men who have more romantic options prefer to marry women who are more like a peer. When men have power to influence their mate options, they tend to use that power to find a peer-age woman for companionship and partnership in life.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

yet there’s a coterie of tweets\u2014and online personalities\u2014devoted to insisting that high-achieving men find high-achieving women repulsive and instead choose to marry from America’s veritable cornucopia of smokin’ hot Applebee’s waitresses.”<\/p>\n

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