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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Ah, so the author seems to think that gold-digging is the appropriate route for women since a career is out of the question if marriage is the ultimate goal. Interesting. My property professor in law school said that traditional marriage was just legalized prostitution, and I agree and also think traditional baby-raising is slavery, so I think I may like the cut of this guy's jib, in a roundabout sort of way (not that I have read the article or anything -- that would require some work).
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I don't think he made the first conclusion you cite. I think he was trying to just compare having a wife to getting hookers for sex, but didn't have the guts to write it like the blunt locker room conversation in which it usually comes up. He chickenshitted into a stupid discussion of market forces.
This seems to be a trend. A lot of writers these days posture their observations as ruminations on the effect of market forces. This allows the reader to avoid the consideration of the real issue, which is that people do rotten shit for selish reasons all the time. I'm a fan of the market, but I hate this "the market made me do it" crap.
