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Originally Posted by Andybaby
...How can you women think you should make as much money as a man if you don't think you should pay for a date. 33% of people believe a woman should pay less on a date then a man. while only 20% think that they should pay as much as a man on the date.
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I reckon it's instinctive, because mating has more serious, and long-lasting, implications for females than males, they have to be more cautious; so it is often the males that do the wooing.
I'm reading a Victorian novel, and reached a scene with an elderly spinster looking back over her life, and regretting that nothing came of her one romantic entanglement:
"Such a different life it might have been to both: and now the moment for doing anything had long past, and the two barren existences were alike coming to an end. ... If it had been her own fault, no doubt she would have felt as Mr. Ochterlony did, a kind of tender and not unpleasant remorse; but one is naturally less tolerant and more impatient when one feels that it is not one's own, but another's fault."
The notion that she could have taken the initiative is too ridiculous to contemplate.