Son of Opie

Nope, I'm from Washington, and we pronounce our "r's"...

collegehopeful78

MEn should only marry women of equal or greater financial status since divorce courts will screw you over otherwise.

lethargytm

Prenup hopeful.

sakky

That's quite interesting, as I happen to know plenty of premeds who not only never had a single date in college, but couldn't get one to save their lives. Let's face it. Premeds tend to be drawn from a certain crowd: namely, those people who do nothing but study all day, every day, and otherwise have no life and no social skills (heck, some of them don't even shower). {Note, that's not to say that that's what doctors are like, I'm just talking about what premeds are like.) In fact, I am almost certain that many of those premeds do what they do as a matter of default: since they know they can't get a date anyway, they might as well spend their time studying to get into med school.

Perhaps somebody should set up an online dating system - i.e. a match.com or eharmony - to put together all these girls that are apparently attracted to premeds and those lonely and desperate premed guys that I remember. I'm sure they wouldn't mind being seen as 'meal tickets' because, hey, that's a hell of lot better than nothing (which is what they're getting now).

lethargytm

sakky, I get girls. I only party like twice every 1.5 months but even then... All my friends are partiers, study freaks, etc...

collegehopeful78

lethargytm, a pre nup could be contested with a false accusation of domestic violence or rape which most women these days will use to their advnatge (99% of western women are this evil and vindictive).

lindz126

collegehopeful78--please go into a specialty in medicine where you aren't permitted to treat female patients---your view of women is too mysogynistic

sakky

Hey, I never said that all premeds had no game.

What I am saying is that I'm sure we can all think of a certain core group of premed guys that have no hope of ever meeting anybody. Like I said, some of these guys don't even shower.

GoldShadow

Sakky is definitely right.

I've met many of these premeds-to-be-pitied.

Bigredmed

I thought it went without saying, but the guys who stand to gain the most from the girls looking for the meal ticket, are the ones who had at least some chance to begin with, and being pre-med simply kicks them up a couple notches on the ladder. It all makes perfect sense if you're familiar with The Ladder Theory.

I laugh at lethargytm's boasting about partying twice every six weeks. I'm in my third year of medical school and party more often than that!

collegehopeful78

No the proven way to get girls (at least 25% of hot girls) is to treat them like pure dirt. I know guys who do this and they get someone to wait on them, gifts and dates paid for, obedience, loyalty and best of all sex on demand.

BodaciousG

^You are revolting.

W.T.F. "Gold diggers" aren't just girls. A lot of men gold dig too. Please stop making women out to be a breed of she-devils. I know this will come as a shock to you all, but there are women who are intelligent and ambitious. I for one don't need a man to take care of me (or be my sugar daddy). I can handle myself just fine, thank you.

???? Why don't you quit being so judgmental and mind your own business. What does it matter to you how they live?

sakky

But that's what I'm saying - if there really are all these "premed groupies" out there that are hunting for meal tickets (and presumably not all of these girls are successfully finding these 'tickets'), that would come as a shockingly pleasant surprise to those 'premeds-to-be-pitied' who can't get anything at all. Somebody should therefore should just set them up. The girl is happy because she has the meal ticket she wants. The guy is happy because he actually has somebody, whereas before, he was clearly getting absolutely nobody. Sounds like a huge win-win to me.

GoldShadow

I think you're taking the internet and jokes way too seriously.

Bigredmed

Well, to use the ladder theory terminology, you still have to be on the girl's hookup ladder in order to have any chance. For women, it's estimated that 50% of their rating system is based on money/power, while "attraction" (which combines looks, competition, novelty, and 'other') makes up 40%, and "things women say they care about but don't" makes up the remaining 10%. Based on the breakdown of attraction (of which looks are 1/2 of the 40%) - about 20% of the total rating system is still based on looks.

Click on this page for the graph: The Ladder Theory - Attraction Deconstructed

So based on those numbers, looks DO continue to matter, and our unfortunate lads who suffer from disturbing personal habits remain SOL.

As they always say - a person knows within 30 seconds of meeting you whether they'd hook up with you or not.

For those interested, the male rating system breaks down thusly:
60% looks
30% estimated chance she'll put out quickly
10% other

And for the record...I'd love to find me a sugar mama. And I've never been shy to say this. Maybe in residency I'll find some lonely plastic surgery fellow; a guy can dream.