"Diamonds did not become a girls best friend for no reason, there
are sound evolutionary reasons for it. Buy your girl a nice necklace
and I'll bet you get laid that night".

Some other countries yes.

In the 21st century in Australia a definite desperado approach.

Ala old man desperation to me Yabby.

You poor old ######

Unique, I refer to "you" as anyone who fits the criteria, nothing
to do with Unique.

You are of course free to shoot the messenger here, but I am used
to that on OLO. For the benefit of this exercise, I actually
dragged out some of my evolutionary psychology books. When David
Buss did his studies on US females looking for males, they were
11 times more likely to mention money, then when males were looking
for females. US females earn similar incomes to Australian females.

Fact is that the dating agencies will tell you, that unemployed,
unskilled males arn't really wanted, but high achieving, high
income, high status males are snapped up right away. Similarly
when it comes to male choice, young goodlooking females with
a good figure are snapped up right away, middle aged, overweight,
ugly females are more likely to be ignored.

This is basic evolution theory stuff, ignore it if you choose to.

Plenty of Australian females might earn great incomes, but if they
were home minding the kids, where many would like to be, they would
not be earning it. Working a 5 day week plus raising toddlers, is
not so easy on your own. Most women are aware of that.

You and Pelican seem unable to examine things from other perspectives,
but think its all personal and go on the defensive.

Its not personal, but the data cannot be denied. If your were
typical, you would not be on OLO debating these issues, you'd
probably be off reading your New Idea or something similar.

You win Yabby (about the U.S. women studied at the time) though my view still holds about the majority of Australian women working in cities; there would not be 50% of Aussie women participating on dating sites let alone pre-selecting higher income earners.

For what its worth...been there done that for 20 years (not dating sites)married to a high income earner. Personally, I would choose a man who (a) gives to other people and is genuine and kind in nature to many people, mostly non-judgemental, sharing his stories with me about people in a positive fun way and his (hopefully part-time) work and life, (b)a man who wishes to travel and camp around Australia and is winding down with his work and time spent working. Money/income does not have any type of bearing or relevancy in respect to any future partner.

If people genuinely wish to share their lives and create loving memories, why be concerned about money, greed and assets.

Every partner contributes in relationships, it is not all based upon money and assets Yabby ie "partnership" (joint contributors)

emotionally and spiritually supporting partners, (love, caring, compassion, learning and growing from one another and through each others friends and family, sharing laughs, fun times, physical unions). Money and assets apart from meeting basic needs should not factor or play any crucial part/issue in relationships unless there are problems with a person not sharing or having an addiction that interferes with an overall relationship that is loving.

why..the generalisations yabby?

""When David
Buss did his studies on US females looking for males,""

he picked a representative type of females
to wit those ADMITTING TO BE LOOKING
not addmitting to be married
or admitting to be single

but ones looking for a rich sukker
to get them out of russia[or wherever]

""they were
11 times more likely to mention money,""

yes they would
isnt that what hookers allways do?

""then when males were looking
for females.""

dont the john allways prefer to spend money
than work on a relationship?

""US females earn similar incomes to Australian females.""
yes housework is valued the same
for free..ibn usa or here

but what about hookers?

wages...thats what you need to present..
to validify your..lol..case

funny how yankie have minimum wages
and grossly elitist bonus rates

to say the aussie manager
get the same
as some yank new york stock broker
your in...lala land bro

ps im ok with the rest

but as usual
the lie starts
is at the very beginning

then gets the deluge of irrebutable fact
indicating you got private education..and have studied poli-tricks

prefering gross/over-simplifications..
over thought out reasoned objectivity