Random Musings

Many people were miffed after reading part I of this post. Considering that it was quite ambitiously titled What women want , I don’t think they can be faulted for expecting something more than some incomprehensible tale about my peculiar incidents with some females I dated. They had expected something substantial, and felt cheated because I just broke off in the middle of nowhere, and they were quite vocal about it to me, accusing me of being a charlatan pretending to know everything. So let me just address that specific issue initially itself:

The ideal of womanhood would be the ideal of motherhood; someone who would do anything for her children, and thus would be a woman who marries a dull rich guy and then has affair with an interesting stud, so that she gets both the resources (from the rich guy) and the genes (from the stud).

The above definition not merely runs counter to everything that the society considers as virtuous, it would indeed be considered as the apotheosis of pure evil. Our society not only looks askance at a woman marries into wealth, it would positively crucify a woman who has an extra-marital affair.

But let us look at this from the child’s point of view. The most important thing about wealth is that adults don’t need it at all, but it can make quite a lot of difference in a child’s development. A woman who is attracted to wealth is a woman who is sacrificing her happiness with an attractive personality for the sake of providing a good life for her children. And a woman who has an extra-marital affair is someone who is undertaking a dangerous task, again with the sole intention of getting the best for her children.

Thus the simple answer to what women want would be: have the perfect child and raise it in the perfect environment. If she can get both of this from the same male, she would definitely follow that, but if she can’t — which is how it would be in most cases — she will have to compromise, and hope to attain her aim in a more convoluted manner.

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