A clip of an interview with a woman discussing her personal relationship standards is getting a lot of praise online after she explained why she wants her partner to possess a similar or higher salary than her own.
Angela Knight, an influencer, spoke with the interview-based platform The Desirable Truth on the streets of Miami. In a segment aired this week on various social platforms like TikTok and YouTube, Knight breaks down gender roles and identities between men and women and how they impact a number of interests like relationships, social behaviors, and individual mindsets.
The interviewer asked her, “If you make $100K, how much do you want your man to make?”
“I would assume that I would meet someone in the same bracket, so he’d probably make $100K, the same or more,” Knight responded. “We do live in modern society, women do work, men do work, I’m not gonna sit home and not do anything. Hypergamy is also still very much a thing, so you’re obviously gonna date someone in the same bracket or someone that makes more, it’s between the two.”
The term hypergamy, which Knight used as a basis for her argument, is a social practice in which a person of a certain social, educational, or economic background dates or marries someone that has a higher background or status.
She goes on to say how the differences in social or economic statuses between a man and a woman in a relationship, especially if the woman is the breadwinner, can impact how that man views his partner and himself.
The interviewer then asks her if she would date someone who made even $55,000, to which Knight replies that it wouldn’t make sense for her to date down and elaborates how money can factor into a man’s ability to steer a relationship.
“If a guy wants to lead a relationship, how is he leading it if he’s making less? The money helps you lead in a lot of ways: responsibilities and goals. If you’re not making any money, what are you doing…
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