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"A woman loyalty is tested when a man has nothing. A man loyalty is tested when he has everything."

Or to paraphrase Chris Rock:-

In a good neighbourhood the women dont have jobs.

In a bad neighbourhood it's the men that don't have jobs.

That's a great way to paraphrase this. A little chauvinistic, but he got slapped I'll cut him a break.

To still paraphrase Chris Rock: Beyonce could still marry Jay-Z, even if she was working at McDonald's...Now Jay-Z by the contrary....

But, but, have you seen She's out of my league?!?

Just kidding, of course - that movie works precisely because it upends well-accepted norms so thoroughly. Likely wouldn't work the other way around.

Interesting. Who said it?

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

Opening line of Pride and Prejudice.

I mean, in a society where all financial security of a woman is from man and she has no real way of getting independent income, this sort of thinking actually makes sense.