I get what you're saying. My husband is basically my age (3 year difference) and we still have huge "cultural differences" because he was more mainstream than I was growing up. I can't imagine dealing with someone whose entire references were completely foreign to me. It sounds like it would be fun for a while, but…

Probably, though I tend to think of it from the other side of things. Men who prefer to date younger women are given a broad social message that it's their due, that they should aggressively pursue them, and that far more women are into older men than actually are. Women who prefer to date younger men are mocked as…

I just don't understand huge age discrepancies. I'm trying to date guys up to 10 years older than me, but I went on a date with a guy the other night and he was talking about his love of backstreet boys, and then I mentioned I was more into N'SYNC when I was in elementary school, and he was like yeah but this was…

Another Asiaphile asshat found his "obedient Asian woman" from a mail order bride site. Well, he lost the very little respect I have for him left. I hope not but I know the racist "me love u long time" comments are coming too.

He's got to be somewhere on the autistic spectrum. To think this is an ok way of finding a life partner, the guy must be just failing to grasp some key part of regular human behaviour. I'm thinking not so much a douchebag as a rich guy who's wired differently to most of us. Not that I'd want to spend more than 30…

You make such a good point here. What kind of woman is poised, polished, internationally traveled, educated, skinny, fit, cares about health, an "8" (and I'm pretty sure this guy isn't grading on a curve) and yet is also sweet and subservient and eager to drop out of the workforce and have kids? DOES. NOT. COMPUTE. E

He's Asian. And he will only accept a Caucasian. I am reading so much into this.

I don't have a problem with anyone (man or woman, gay or straight) having criteria for what they want in a life partner. I DO have a problem with someone asking for all of this and offering "I'm successful and have money" as their only contribution to the table. If I had a friend that fit this criteria - and I…

These are MY hard objectives:

"they yearn for attention. they want to know that they're still desirable to the average 20-something."

You know, as a formally religious Jew living in a town full of predominantly religious Muslims, I call bullcaca. Religious women DO wear make-up. They DO style their hair- even if you can't see it under the scarf, you bet your sweet tuchus it looks rockin underneath. Muslim women in the long robes the names of which I…

Just to be fair here, I think less attractive people would be more likely to dwell on and remember these type of things for reporting in a study. In addition, if a very attractive person begins work at a new company there will always be the bitchiness of and competitiveness of existing coworkers of the same sex…

Being dependent on men to support yourself and make your career possible isn't feminist, actually. It's not something I'd be as judgemental about as this article was, but don't kid yourself. Feminism is the fight to be treated as equals, not the right to get fully funded for being a special snowflake.

I moved to New England this past year. It definitely happens here. There's also a very troubling core of sheltered (albeit fundamentally well-meaning), hyperliberal, hypereducated white people who mistake graduate curriculums full of race and postcolonial theory for genuine experience or empathy. The pursuits are…