Posted on 03/24/2025 5:58:27 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
After a handful of underwhelming relationships and dozens of disappointing first dates, Andrea Vorlicek recently called off the search for a husband.
The 29-year-old always thought she’d have found her life partner by now. Instead, she’s house hunting solo and considering having kids on her own.
“I’m financially self-sufficient enough to do these things myself,” said Vorlicek, a Boston-based accountant. “I’m willing to accept being single versus settling for someone who isn’t the right fit.”
She sees her plans for an independent future as making the best of a lousy situation. “I don’t want to sit here and say I’m 100% happy,” Vorlicek said. “But I feel happier just accepting my reality. It’s mentally and emotionally a sense of peace.”
American women have never been this resigned to staying single. They are responding to major demographic shifts, including huge and growing gender gaps in economic and educational attainment, political affiliation and beliefs about what a family should look like.
“The numbers aren’t netting out,” said Daniel Cox, director of the survey center at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a conservative think tank. He ticked off the data points: More women than men are attending college, buying houses and focusing on their friendships and careers over dating and marriage.
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I have no idea why you are losing your temper just because I pointed out that there are a lot of young men who do nothing but game all day. It’s the truth, but you’re acting like I showed up on your doorstep and pointed my finger at your family. If you want to take what I say personally, go right ahead. But I don’t care, because your feelings are not my responsibility.
Nose rings (snot rings) lots of tats and horribly colored hair are a no go for most men.
Really, if you want your hair another color, get it done right. Most women look like they dumped koolaid packets on their hair. Yuck.
Yeah no crap, excuse my effing typo.
Do you live in a big city?
Cause that’s not the case in East Texas.
Losing my temper?
lol, nope.
But you’re projecting again.
I’m just pointing out your ignorance and hypocrisy.
I don’t take anything on the web to heart, cause I’ve been a veteran of so many meme wars, lol.😂
It’s women like you that make a workplace hell, tho.
So go on with your little assumptions and I’ll lol and move on to something else.
lol, damn. You ought to change your post name sweetheart.
Again, you’re the one who decided to go line by line on my post.
Your butt hurt is amusing.
You’ve never seen me angry, darling. Cause you’d be in tears.
lol. Go be a grumpy puss, nobody cares.
If it’s a private conversation, you might want to not post on an open forum.
The worst is women my age (technically senior. On the outside) who do it.
Nothing screams *Looking for attention. I’ve got self esteem issues.* than pink , blue, or green hair on a woman over 30.
I saw no typo in your post.
Was merely confounded by the meaning of the expression "11-B," looked it up online, and shared for the benefit of other non-military FReepers.
Excuse me if that wasn't clear.
Regards,
Sorry - but your post was ambiguous. It sounded (to me) as though you were siding with those who use that twisted logic.
Regards,
Two points:
1. Sadly, I must agree with you!
2. It was chiefly Obama who drove the use of the word "notion" in the sense of "hare-brained idea." Unfortunately, as a result, the word "notion" is now broadly perceived as having a negative connotation. So you might rather go with a substitute word like "concept" or "principle" here.
Regards,
Excellent rebuttal (your entire post) to A_perfect_lady's blatant "strawmanning" of your line of reasoning.
Regards,
3 teen sisters arrested for trying to kill their mom after she turned off the Wi-Fi, HCSO says
no, small city but close to Wash. DC. :(
You see his post as a rebuttal? I saw it as a confession that men are also to blame for the current state of affairs, which is all I wanted.
All I did was point out that a huge percentage of young men today are no prize, because they just want to game for hours and hours, and contribute very little to any relationship. And it’s true. If that describes you and your family, that’s unfortunate, but as I said, I’m not on your doorstep pointing the finger and calling you losers. If you do fit the description, this is not my fault. Clearly I hit a nerve.
Spot-on !!
+++1
Questions that need to be answered:
1. What if the person wants back?
2. Wants back after being crawled by another’s DNA messing inside them?
3. And blame projects. Projects their own ruin onto the spouse in attempt to deflect the shame?
4. And then attempts to gang recruit others for their cause?
These questions need to be addressed, in having no question to walk away ....
Reading comprehension?
To save space, I copied and pasted only the final paragraph of FLT-Bird's excellent rebuttal.
However, the preceding THREE paragraphs (which I did not copy) nicely summarized why your claims were false / refuting your arguments:
If that's how you take it then you take it wrong. I pointed out women initiated 70% of all divorces and abuse/infidelity is not the cause in a large majority of cases. That is simply what the data shows. Usually the reason cited is they're bored, they feel held back, they feel unfulfilled, etc.
I also pointed out that men generally get the short end of the stick from divorce courts particularly wrt child custody. Again, I don't know how that's even arguable. The data on that is overwhelming. Note, that nowhere did I ever say all men are blameless, that some are not abusive, that some are not unfaithful, etc. Society as a whole is less committed to staying in relationships and making them work than was typically the case 2-3 generations ago. It used to be considered a real scandal to get a divorce....unless maybe you were a Hollywood type or really rich. Now its commonplace and everybody just shrugs.
I do think feminism sold women on some really bad ideas when it comes to the timing of how to live their lives....that they would be much better off if they did as their grandmothers did and chose more reliable guys earlier on rather than thinking they can spend their 20s swinging for the fences and can always circle back and settle for a decent guy in their 30s....or that they can put off having kids until their mid to late 30s. Things often do not turn out well when they follow that life path. It ignores biology and it ignores the fact that it takes two to tango....ie men and especially higher value men in their mid to late 30s do not value women their age generally.
In summary: FLT-bird penned an excellent rebuttal of your positions!
And no one here ever asserted that the male sex was entirely blameless! But they bear less of the blame!
Given the positive accomplishments of civilization (safe streets, cushy jobs, high-caloric junk food, etc.) and its ethically gravely flawed "accomplishments" (hormonal birth control, abortion on demand, Nanny State subsidization of unwed motherhood, state recognition of homo "marriages," hiring quotas, etc.) and the "fruits" of Third-Wave Feminism (demonization of men / "toxic masculinity," propagation of the false belief that "men and women are equal / the same," the celebration of illegitimacy, etc.), women are now no longer in the primitive environment in which their natural instincts, preferences, and urges evolved (and were simultaneously kept safely in check).
AGAIN: Their baser nature has been unleashed.
As a consequence, the dating market (what used to be the prelude to pairing up and marrying) - the market in which women now make all the rules, has been warped and made non-functional.
"Women control access to sex, men control access to commitment (marriage)." - Mr. Kevin Samuels. But since the dating market (the first floor of a building) has already been wrecked, men have given up on marriage (the second floor).
(As I previously explained, men likewise have a base nature - but societal / peer pressures, religious constraints, arranged marriages, etc. all kept the free expression of their baser instincts in check. Today, women withholding access to themselves from all but top-tier men continues to keep most men in check - so many have said, "Fine! Then I'll indulge in online gaming, etc.!" Society is aiding and abetting the wealth transfer to women (and esp. unwed mothers) from hardworking men, who thus have further reason to want to "opt out" not only of the sexual market, but also the job market.)
When the situation gets to the point that we see only barren 40-year-old female execs (with frozen eggs) working to pay taxes to subsidize the 20-year-old single mommas with multiple babies from Chad and Tyrone, maybe things will finally change.
But probably we'll have first been invaded and conquered by the Muslims or Chinese (yes, I know they have their own problems).
Regards,
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