Why more women choose not to marry

CNN ^ | 10/16/2014 | Pepper Schwartz

[Lady Heron]

Societal wealth provides women with the luxury of being selfish. All people are intrinsically selfish and seek to put the comforts of self first and this is what women are now doing.

Hear I thought is was just because I no longer trust in the honor of men anymore.... even "Christian" ones.

[TalBlack]

“At 18 I married someone much older “

How much of a difference in age? At 18 what seemed “old” to me turned out to be not quite so much.

[DaveyB]

One of the goals of feminism was to liberate women from patriarchy by the elimination of marriage. Feminism has largely succeeded. No longer is marriage viewed as the only appropriate context for sex, but the entertainment culture has deluded us in to thinking love or lust is the proper context for sex. Hence sex is withheld in marriage and the fornication epidemic is spreading. The result is the destabilization of society.

You go girl! Soon not only will there be no men to marry, but none will defend you, innovate technology, fix your car or allow you to rob him through the family courts. Feminism is societal suicide!

[EQAndyBuzz]

What do you put in your hair? Do you exfoliate? Do you have a nail clipper set? How about moisturizer, depending on the weather of course? Soap. What kind? How many different bars do you use?

And on and on and on. Watch the movie American Psycho. That should give you an idea of what I am talking about.

[Lazamataz]

THE RING. NOW.

[Sparklite]

Exactly. The question can be reformed to ask why guys aren’t asking girls to get married as in the past. The war on masculinity is one reason. When a guy asks a girl out and she acts insulted, it’s back to the Xbox.

[Lazamataz]

No, thanks, but if you’re ever in town, I’ll do your laundry.

Not good enough. Marriage or nothin'.

[wbill]

all those girls that bought into it are still single, lonely, and for the most part poor.

A right good number of Mrs WBill's college friends are in their late 30s / early 40s. Mostly professionals (and scarily, mostly in education) they certainly would consider themselves "Feminists". Far from being poor, they're "single and loving" it, with fantastic trips (NYC, Europe, CA) at the drop of a hat, parties every weekend, and so on.

Looks like a life anyone would want, until you get past the thin veneer. Underneath it is a lonely, single, and desperately unhappy lifestyle. They've tried to replace "husband and kids" - things feminism says that they don't need! - with a party-all-the-time lifestyle, and are failing miserably at it.

Meanwhile, Mrs. WBill (who "settled", per some of her friends) and I are blissfully happy. Sure, we don't jet off to Europe for whatever the latest East End premier is.... but we took the kids to the pumpkin patch this past weekend and had a blast.

I'll take that over "shallow and meaningless", every time. :-) And, I'm glad that my lovely wife has been spending more time with the ladies at our church, than her old college friends. Much better class of people.

[American Constitutionalist]

I don’t put anything in my hair, but I do wash it with cheap shampoo, I use cheap soap to wash with.
Toothpaste ? Is it still manly to use it to keep my teeth from rotting out ?
Foot spray ? To keep my feet from stinking ?
That’s about it, unless I get poison ivy rash and put ointment on it to stop the itch.
OK, I use under arm deodorants, shaving cream.
Use wire cutters to clip my nails.

[wardaddy]

Women in comfortable western states have been programmed by fat lesbians how to be as unhappy as they themselves are

[Yaelle]

I think you have a point. For a man to have companionship, sex, and good cooking, and cleaning, 50 and more years ago, he had to get married. Even if he was unattractive and a low earner. And there were less than attractive women with other flaws who would marry him and these two would give each other a decent life or a so-so life.

with other alternatives to marriage for both these men and women above, they may choose not to settle for each other.

[eyeamok]

and watch how they are when they reach my age, pretty sad.

[JimRed]

More women choose not to marry because they’ve been propagandized to believe that men are rotten, no good evil oppressors.

[dfwgator]

There was also a lot of social pressure to get married, no woman wanted to be referred to as an “Old Maid” or a “Spinster.”

[wardaddy]

Women in comfortable western states have been programmed by fat lesbians how to be as unhappy as they themselves are

[JimRed]

You appear to have wisdom beyond your years, and your guy is a lucky man!

[goodnesswins]

Sorry...already taken!!!

[Delta Dawn]

Wow, the day that the Lazamataz decides to settle down and marry two women...The greatest Hitter that ever lived...All those years of posting in the hopes of him catching a glimpse of my online self...I am inconsolable...

[wardaddy]

Hell yeah

I love it.

[Bellflower]

And since women are putting themselves first they are coming out last in the quality and richness of life. Selfishness leaves one cold in the end. Many will not know the real love they have forfeited in their quests for selfish fulfillment. They will not know that their lives could have been filled with love because they will think their cold selfish lives are what life is meant to be, having nothing to compare it to. Some will feel the emptiness and loss and resort to happy pills from the doc.