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Why "for men". You think men are happier than women in arranged marriages?!

• deng 7y ago
  > Why "for men". You think men are happier than women in arranged marriages?! As long as they have all the money and can have lovers, how is that even a question?
  • scarmig 7y ago
    Being responsible for making the money is different from having the agency to spend the money. It's fairly common for cultures to grant that role to the woman of the household. Not sure if that's the case in historic Germanic regions, but it's a crutch to take the principle "women are universally oppressed by men" and believe that's all you need in order to make any statement about gender across all of time and space.
    • deng 7y ago
      > Not sure if that's the case in historic Germanic regions It wasn't (aside from food and other common needs). > it's a crutch to take the principle "women are universally oppressed by men" I did not say that. The OP spoke of centuries where arranged marriages were common in Germany, and there's no doubt that women did not have equal rights during that time. The crutch here is to define "success of marriages" through fertility rates and number of divorces.