Oddbean new post about login | logout I doubt modern men would be willing to marry many of the women their grandfathers and great-grandfathers were marrying, and they would be dismayed at how quickly women aged. There is a German phrase "Every child costs one tooth" and women where having 6 kids. You do the math. If everyone gets a wife, that means you have hardly any choice in which wife you get. Think about it. https://www.lwl.org/marsLWL/scr/1649236323000/6569v1tv3/01-283-MZA-222a-Haubergswirtschaft-des-Siegerlandes.jpg
They will if they know what’s good for them. 😅 https://youtu.be/6EqFVWzOfN8
That’s not very fair though, unless this in the context of some “women were better back then!” kind of simplification :)
I think modern men have an ahistorical view of female beauty, so the concept of universal marriage sounds more appealing than it was. We can't go back to that era, and I doubt anyone born today would actually be willing to do so, if they saw what life back then was actually like.
People have an ahistorical view about everything, basically. The concept of marriage generations ago on anyone’s head is just a soup of decontextualised biases.
I've also noticed that men tend to heavily discount womens' age in old pictures. They see pictures of 16 year-old factory girls from 1910 and get all excited because they think she's 25. https://i.nostr.build/jz76LAGdpIO3UPN5.jpg
If modern women had half the homemaking skills those women did I think you’d be surprised Men need more of their grandpas skills too, don’t get me wrong. competence is extremely sexy
The fact that women could do a lot of things doesn't mean that they all did them equally well. And how hard was it, to serve corn pone, pickled beans, and pottage every damn day? People around here used to eat 15 variations of dumpling and bread, bread, bread... Nowadays, y'all expect us to cook steak dinners and serve organic vegetable julienne, like you're living in a permanent episode of Downton Abbey. 😅 Would you really want to wear homespun and wear clothes full of patches? Nowadays, you can just go buy new clothes and the seams are straight, and you can just throw them in the washing machine, when they are dirty. Y'all romanticize everyone's crappy life. Would my husband trade me in for some illiterate, toothless woman, who smelled bad and served him boiled potatoes and sauerkraut for dinner, and died giving birth to his 12th kid? Nope.
No and my wife would rather I be able share my feelings than mend fences with dull square nails but she did still swoon when I built a shelf from scratch once
Yeah, I'm married to one of the handsomest men I've ever met, and he's still attractive, in his 50s, so you couldn't pay me enough to go back in time. 😂 I deserve this, dammit. Modern men are so tall, shapely and muscular. For a while, East Asian men were scrawny, but they're also looking increasingly 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Not that I'm looking. 🤭
