- Messages
- 17,263
- Location
- New York City
^ Fast I found a YT video done by a lady finance advisor dubbed ''The Financial Diet'' titled appropriately,
Millennial Women May Never Recover From The Romcom that you might find interesting. A take on millennial
women of today who watch current romcoms populated by female college grads with corporate magazine,
media, publication jobs that pay enough to afford downtown costly digs, pub nights every night with girl mates,
and fruitlessly futile search for husbands at least six feet six figure salaried and available. And how post covid millennial young ladies still must cope with dating life in the non movie world.
I never stopped to consider the social film connect with its confusion.
It is hilarious how unrealistic those movie "lifestyles" are. My next-door neighbor just retired from a long career in publishing, she was an editor for a well-known NYC publishing house. The entry level pay and pay scale in publishing, in general, which was never high, is even lower now as the internet has, obviously, pressured the traditional publishing model.
Even in high-paying fields like tech, no one (other than the crazy one-off story) in their twenties can afford the apartments and lifestyles shown in movies as, often, those apartments are, in cities like NYC, multi-million dollar ones. The men and women in their twenties and, often, thirties in publishing (and most fields) are living in small, rundown apartments in what had been tenement apartments eighty years ago (like the one our friend the super Krause takes care of).
As to dating, my girlfriend and I have a lot of friends, some that young, and now, also, friends with kids in their twenties, and dating for women is brutal in this city. I'm sorry if it doesn't align to the movie or political views of today, but it is our female, not male, friends who have a much tougher time finding a partner. I have my theories on why, but they don't matter, the reality is it seems that the men find it much easier than the women. And single women in their 30s and 40s in this city say it's nearly impossible. To be sure, what I am saying is anecdotal, but it's based on a lot of anecdotes over many years.
Last edited: