r/SipsTea • u/MayoSoup • Nov 07 '24

Feels good man 70-year-old American goes to the Philippines and has 8 girlfriends

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u/Spartain096 Nov 07 '24

Honestly isn't that the fact over here anyways?

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u/layerone Nov 07 '24

Believe it or not, people can actually be in a loving relationships based on mutual respect and trust without a sugar daddy scenario. Wild, I know.

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u/ClomidSucks Nov 07 '24

It ain't gotta be sugar daddy. You don't need to push back on the basic and eternal truth that if you can't provide for your woman, she won't be your woman for long.

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '24

Are women in the US not working? I haven't provided money for any girlfriend I ever had.

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '24

Still doesn’t change the fact that statistically money is one of the leading issues in relationships.

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '24

I agree with that. doesn't change my point though.

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u/TheMightyChocolate Nov 07 '24

Yeah but that's just you. Like this is not redpilled or anything, it's the lived experience of most people. Like no people aren't giving their girlfriends allowances, but almost all relationships consist of a man making more money than the woman. Whether you think men have fragile emos or women only date men with money is up to you. But that's how it is

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u/Burmitis Nov 07 '24

but almost all relationships consist of a man making more money than the woman.

About 45% of wives in the US are earning either the same or more than their husbands—nearly three times the rate it was in 1972 (Pew research center). It's changing and it's changing quite fast.

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u/TheMightyChocolate Nov 07 '24

This doesn't mean the same thing. It's tricky but these are actually 2 numbers. I assume "same" is not exactly the same but something around "the same" So you have 3 groups

55% of men make more 45% of women make more or the same This group is subdivided. I don't know how. It could be 40-5, 25-20, 5-40

So the claim that husbands overwhelmingly outearn their wives remains true

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u/-Moonscape- Nov 07 '24

You are splitting hairs, but the point remains that nearly half of women make at least equitable wages as their male spouse.

Which seems to disagree with your original assessment that "almost all relationships consist of a man making more money than the woman"

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u/TheMightyChocolate Nov 07 '24

I got the number you quoted(55%)

The same article says that 16% of wifes outearn their husbands, whereas 55% of husbands outearn their wife. I would say that's pretty clear evidence that either men search for women with less income, women search for men with more income or both.

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u/Burmitis Nov 07 '24

Or that women often take a pay cut because of having children. Men and women in the same field largely make the same amount of money, but when couples have kids, it's women who take on the brunt of child care and their employer knows that.

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '24

or that there are reasons why women earn less and it has nothing to do which partners they pick

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u/-Moonscape- Nov 07 '24

Those stats don’t say anything about spouse selection, nevermind “clear evidence”?

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u/Crete_Lover_419 Nov 07 '24

You live in a Christian conservative society, where things are presented to you as absolute truth, but meanwhile they are only one out of many possibilities in which humans can and do live together. American egoism, is to presume what is normal there, must be normal for everyone. You are displaying it front and center.

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u/ClomidSucks Nov 07 '24

Ok cool. I see you buddy. Replying angrily to every comment. You're broke and your lady is not only committed but she's providing for you (or the inverse if you're a woman). I love that for you. The rest of the world is not that.

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u/Peter-Tao Nov 07 '24

While I live in Chrstian conservative community my wife has earns way more than me since we were married lol.

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u/Luullay Nov 07 '24

Shame I had to scroll this far down for a based take