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Cousin_Martha_Corey | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 It sounds like he’s saying that it’s fine for couples to split the bills unevenly if one person makes way more, and I agree with that.  I would be very angry if I were making $20,000/year and my partner were making $2,000,000 year and he said we had to go 50/50 on everything.  I don’t even know how anyone would think that would work.

I don’t know if it’s true that black women are making “a lot more money” than black men.  Do you know?  I’d be pretty surprised, actually.
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63633af4 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Splitting the bills based on income is cool.  A woman making lots more than the man is - that may be a problem.

Tyler Perry can do Black women a grave disservice at times - hence the backlash.
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Cousin_Martha_Corey | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 If he’s right that, on average, black women make way more, then I guess there’s little choice but to have income-unbalanced couples in that direction.  I’m just not sure that he’s right.

I’m not very techy and I don’t even know how to take a good screenshot on the computer I am using right now, but I used this site to find the U.S. Department of Labor’s answer.  If you click to specify that you want black men and black women, you will see that in 2021, the medium income for black men was $50,187 and the median income for black women was $46,543.  Therefore, I don’t know what Tyler Perry is talking about.  The woman as the higher earner is probably something he sees occasionally, but it is not the norm.

I think a lot depends on a couple’s life stage and goals.  If you are young and hoping to be able to quit work to be with your kids, then you need a high-income husband.  If you are past that stage, though, or if you are both wildly wealthy (like, comparing $2 million/year to $3 million/year), then it might not matter.

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/wb/data/earnings/median-annual-sex-race-hispanic-ethnicity