I'm tired, it's late, and I think I'm running a fever, so I'm going to do that dirty pool where one quotes things and replies to them instead of writing proper paragraphs. My apologies. :)
Even those studies show that, overall, women spend more total time (paid work and housework) than men ... as the links I provided show
I cannot find in these studies one that states this directly. Can you cite the one in which this is enumerated, please?
Now, as to relationships, my original point was that one of the factors might be that women get tired of verbal or physical abuse - there's no denying it happens.
Yes, and the data I provided (and that can be easily found) shows that women in lesbian relationships engage in verbal and physical abuse just as often, meaning it's not just gender and therefore shouldn't be seen as men 'causing' divorce.
As for the car, don't put words in my mouth.
Certainly not my intention. Here's what you said:
Also - the car study - a dirty old Ford Fiesta to a clean new car??? (not the same as todays' version, btw). You might as well say that women are more attracted to men who take a bath once in a while.
And here's how I summarized:
Re: car, so you agree that you feel a man's car is equivalent to his hygiene?
Is that not a fair summary?
The study, lacking any control data, is bogus and shows the biases of the "researchers".
The study did have a control group -- men. The exact same circumstances were tested for men, and men did not change reactions based on the "dirty old Ford Fiesta to the clean new car." Since it does not matter to men and does matter to women, would you not agree that income level is more relevant for women? I fail to see how this is a biased study -- to be fair, certainly not any more so than a survey which reveals women less frequently hold full-time positions and more frequently do housework and use it to claim men are not contributing.
So, unless they controlled for the # of rooms, # of children, etc (and they did not), to draw the conclusion they did was, again, bogus.
You are making a large number of unsubstantiated assumptions, here, such as assuming that infrequency contributes to difficulty of orgasm, or that the sex lives of people in China are somehow fundamentally different from ours.
the real problem is that the majority of women in the relationships studied are not "getting as good as they give"
This is, respectfully, more misdirection, and an attempt to avoid an original point.
In addition, dismissing the survey because you don't like the information it presents is intellectually dishonest. If you'd like, I can give you an exhaustive critique of the studies you cited, with similar results. The facts are it's hard to gather good data. That's why when you get such strongly correlated results as almost no men caring about cars whilst almost all women do, or that increased wealth increases orgasm frequency across all income brackets, it cannot be simply dismissed.