"...as the increase in fertility technologies and professional commitments for women pushes the average age of marriage back, some men are assuming a take-no-prisoners approach to shopping for a life mate."
- from Rebecca Traister's trendspotting piece on "Wife Shoppers" in Salon.
Traister's glib think piece pushes the notion that the tables have turned in blue state breeder courtship rituals. Now, it's the men who are trying to snare a spouse. Traister's sampling, however, is hopelessly myopic and skewed. The women interviewed for the article include a network news producer, a New York journalist, an advertising brand planner, and a cable executive. Not exactly typical professions for most Americans of either gender. Alternately the clingy, marriage-minded men in her piece are represented by an artist and a secondary school teacher. News Flash: Female TV execs don't want to marry penniless male artists and schoolteachers! And, note to Salon, the whole country is not represented by the glamorous, upwardly mobile women of Sex & the City.
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