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Stuff You Should Know

Short Stuff: Marrying Up

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The idea of "marrying up" is as old as the hills, but things are, and have been, changing for quite a while. And this episode explains it all.

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0:00.0

There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.

0:05.7

That's why we launched The Big Take.

0:08.3

It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit

0:14.0

to give you some space to think.

0:16.4

I'm Wes Kosova.

0:17.7

Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.

0:23.6

Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

0:34.4

Hey and welcome to the short.

0:35.4

So if I'm Josh and there's Chuck, so let's go Tally Ho.

0:39.5

So this one is interesting, I think.

0:42.6

It's about the idea and this goes by many names, all of which are fairly misogynistic, I think.

0:51.0

Yeah, marrying up, gold digging, trophy wife, these sort of terms have long been used.

0:59.6

Even though I did see that Forbes magazine claims to have invented the term coin the term

1:03.8

trophy wife in the 90s.

1:07.1

That feels like more of an 80s thing to me, don't you think?

1:10.0

Hey, that's what Forbes said.

1:11.6

I read that article.

1:13.8

But all to say, the idea of marrying up, which actually has a real name behind it, which

1:19.4

is, how are you going to pronounce this?

1:21.4

Hypergamy.

1:22.4

Hypergamy.

1:23.4

Hypergamy.

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