Originally Posted by
ReineD
And when she has a boyfriend, he is interested for a short time and then the romance fades ... his eyes turn to other girls, he wants to do stuff with his buddies, and many boyfriends even stray. Opportunities within the jobs aren't as good, it's still a man's world in that respect. And, .... guys don't fall all over you and show you a good time, unless you look like a model, which few of us do. And even then, today's guys expect the girls to pay for their own way.
Most of us regular looking GGs, even if we are wearing a skirt and heels, get treated the same in the grocery store as you do, we have to wait in line like everyone else, we sit at a table in a cafe to read our books and drink our lattes without having men come up and pay attention to us (they're all married), and we go home alone at night if we are single.
Or we find a guy to fall in love with, have kids, the romance fades, we become preoccupied with the bills, raising the kids, dual careers, marital issues, losing our bodies and getting wrinkles, and half of us get divorced in courts that heavily favor the men. The statistics show that after a divorce women's standards of living decrease while men get richer.
I'm not saying a woman's life is horrible. I wouldn't know how to be a guy and I can't imagine being any different than I am. But when I read the fantasies here about it, I shake my head in dismay. A woman's life is not the glitzy, romantic life it is cracked up to be.