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🗓️ 5 December 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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0:00.0 | You're listening to the micro version of the Savage Love cast at savage dot love. |
0:05.2 | If you're stuck in a relationship quandary or if you're looking for sexual harmony. |
0:13.0 | While there's nothing you can't |
0:18.0 | on the saddest on the saddest lovecast |
0:27.6 | The editors of the Washington Post just want what's best for you and that means marriage. There's a lot of social science out there backing up the idea that |
0:31.2 | marriage is what's best for you, for everyone, because married people |
0:36.4 | live longer, especially married men, married straight men. |
0:41.2 | Actually when you drill down into the data, the benefits of marriage, at least a straight kind, are less pronounced for women, as the social scientist like to say, married straight men get a much bigger longevity bump than married women do. The theory goes, married men, |
0:56.0 | less likely to take stupid risks, more likely to see a doctor at the urging of their wives, |
1:01.1 | while married women are more likely to be murdered by their husbands. |
1:05.8 | And murder has a way of erasing the health benefits of marriage. |
1:09.7 | Anyway, in an unsigned editorial published under the headline, |
1:13.2 | if attitudes don't shift a political dating mismatch |
1:16.7 | will threaten marriage, the Post's editors |
1:19.5 | raise the alarm. |
1:21.1 | They open by noting something, others have noted, namely that it's getting harder for |
1:24.4 | straight women to find suitable partners as straight men are suffering from higher unemployment, |
1:29.4 | lower rates of educational attainment, more drug addiction, and deaths of despair. |
1:35.0 | On top of that, some straight women insist on making it a little harder for themselves out there |
1:39.0 | by refusing to date men who are shorter than they are or make less money than they do. And now, heaped on top of all |
1:46.2 | of those complications, more women than men identify as liberal or progressive. The gender |
1:51.5 | gap in voting has never been wider, and we've been sorting |
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