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Tuesday, January 3, 2006 12:00 AM

Marrying for love or money?

New York Times columnist John Tierney thinks chicks better lower their standards or they'll end up alone.

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  • Wednesday, January 4, 2006 01:34 PM

    Can this be?

    Gramted. he's an idiot, but is Tierney really blaming feminism for the fact that there are fewer men graduating from college? Is this something that can be dumped on Betty Friedan's head? I didn't know college was a zero-sum game. And is he suggesting that woman should stop getting so darned much education so they'll have smart men to marry down the line?

    That seems like a bit of a stretch. But if men really are having such a hard time competing with all these women, perhaps they really do need some sort of affirmative action. (And for the benefit of reactionary guys like Tierney, Limbaugh, Brooks, et al, let's make sure that's what it's called.)

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