STR8UP said:
1) ....This is a filtering device for women designed to allow them to (potentially) pick out the guy who can give her what she needs in life, while avoiding the guys who are all talk.
2) We aren't talking about MONEY in the sense of cash, dollar bills, coins, what have you. Obviously if you bring a stack of money into a remote jungle village it won't mean sh!t. HOWEVER......that doesn't mean that the women of that tribe don't play the same game. It might not be money, it might be pigs. Or land. Or beads. Or WHATEVER it is that society collectively assigns value to.
Value? Like, brings home the most meat after a hunt, catches the most fish, built the best log home, or has the biggest wood pile? I think I understand your point now, despite your wild tangent.
STR8UP said:
3) To say that western women are the only ones who go by this rule is ridiculous. I've been to several less developed countries and the women salivate over American men because they perceive them to be wealthy.
I agree with your point? Westernized women do look for money.
STR8UP said:
4) To say that women aren't driven by biology to seek a man of means is ridiculous. Besides being common sense, it's been researched and documented. I have a library of books I have read and many of them at least touch on the subject.
I still agree with your point. Women do seek a man with the means to provide.
STR8UP said:
Vulpine- you are splitting hairs by trying to make a distinction between "providing" and "wealth". Your argument is that if a woman's basic needs are met, she's happy. Yea, she's happy until the BBD comes along.
I agree, a woman might leave when a better provider comes along... or because she's bored, or because the wind blew, or because there was a sale at K-mart.
STR8UP said:
A woman of value is going to shoot for a man of value. She is going to factor in looks, personality traits, and displays of wealth and status. You are foolish to think that ALL THINGS EQUAL, she will not choose the man of GREATER means. That's why the supermodel dates the CEO most of the time. Because she CAN.
"Displays of wealth and status"? Like, stacks of wood and a big, warm, log home full of meat?
Let's use your supermodel v. CEO example: the supermodel has a pricetag on her vagina that only the CEO could afford (read: CEO is the best provider). That's his and her CHOICE of LIFESTYLE, that's their world, their social circles, etc. Let's also use the jungle village example (mind you, they choose that lifestyle). Since we've determined that the CEO of the village is the best provider, then, the supermodel of the jungle village would naturally choose the CEO, right? Of course, but, the supermodel of the village might not be what the CEO would WANT or CHOOSE, would she? Now, what if the supermodel of the USA village isn't what I would want or choose? What if the CEO of the Jungle village didn't want to deal with her crap either? What then? What if the CEO wore flannel shirts and work boots all the time and lives in a teepee because he CAN?
Choice.
You basically draw a distinct line between women who are solely out for money, and the rest who could care less. Doesn't work that way buddy. There's a HUGE grey area in between where most women fall.
So yea, most women ARE NOT golddiggers in the sense that we define the term. But most women ARE influenced by wealth. And it isn't just because the "evil media" and society has told women thats what they should be after, it's because they are wired to seek certain traits in a man, just like men are wired to seek certain traits in a woman.
Is the supermodel in the grey area? Or, does she gold-dig "because she can"?
Let me re-frame this entire discussion because we are putting apples to apples:
I purposely and intentionally avoid the women attracted by and to money through a filter of my own. I reveal nothing about my finances, and I am frequently and routinely told by women that
they make more than
I do. When, in reality, they have nothing to base that statement on. I don't exactly wear my financial statements on my sleeve, not because there isn't money, but because it's not hers to concern herself with. I want a woman that's with me for ME, not my money, not my car, not my pinstripes, not my nights on the town and limo rides. Only once a woman shows that she's down "through thick and thin" can I possibly have any trust in her. Why? It's like you said, the world is full of BBD's. There's always someone doing better. What's more, vaginas aren't traded on wall street: they aren't worth a cent (unless you count porn companies...).
Yeah, sure Vulpine, whatever, right? Well, it has to be said that, especially now with the "crises", come what may, I'll still survive, I'll still provide. Natural disaster, war, sh¡tstorm, riots, kids :nervous:... doesn't matter: I will provide for those that I let in my castle. And if they are in my castle, they will have to pull their own weight.
What good is a woman to me that wants to sit on the couch eating bon-bons and watching soap operas all day "because she can". Sex and whining? "Quality ass"? Impress my neighbor with my trophies?
Women are so blindly attracted to wealth, and at the same time short-sighted and mentally lazy that they only ask "what do you do?". They never think enough to ask "what have you done?". I've done some things, put away some money, and live within my means so as to not tear down what I'm building, see? But, "what do you do" is as far as it goes. Why would I bother flaunting cash to those retards?
STR8UP, we both agree that wealth attracts women. My angle, simply, is that the bulk of women, including the "grey area" of gold-digger spectrum, that concern themselves and use wealth as a qualification, are generally low-quality women. Wealth attracts garbage women who are lazy, can't cook, don't clean, have a princess sense of entitlement, shop and spend your money, or otherwise have little to offer besides their holes. The higher up on the "gold-digger" spectrum you go, the lower the quality woman. I won't even get into "professional women".
Besides, women will only last a few years before even their looks and holes are worthless. So, yeah, money will afford you a quick replacement, even a daily replacement. But, the replacement will be just as cheap as the first.
This discussion is fine and nice in a mental masturbation sort of way, but, with the ultimate variables of CHOICE and LIFESTYLE, it's little more than just another factor of attraction.