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 see a big increase in cat and box wine sales.
The quality of American men probably has something to do with it
American men have beaten them to it by a decade or more.
Nonstop attacks by the Left.
So as a result, nihilism is prevalent.
Interesting the WSJ didn’t say “some” of them are giving up on it in the headline.
How do we know it’s the women. What if it’s the men who have given up?
If only we could define what a woman is.......
Then, all would fall in place naturally.
xx and xy. It’s really that simple.
My daughter had to sift through a decade of loser candidates until she found her husband at 32. First child at 34. I am going to be an old grandpa.
On the whole, if men are single, they can still be truly happy, with friends and hobbies and peaceful lives.
On the whole, if women are single, they can only pretend to be happy. They will, in most cases, be miserable and lonely and bitter.
Young women need to figure it out: YOU are not the prize. The man is the prize. Put his happiness first, be the person he wants you to be, be submissive and traditional. This is the path to your own happiness.
And yet more men than women have college degrees of real worth like engineering, computer science, and MBA's.
It's due to propaganda the past couple of decades. They've been hearing it nonstop 24/7.
Men became that quality when 80% of them became unwanted for marriage, because 80% of women wanted only to date Tyrone.
Yup—those beta men are just so boring.
She certainly would not want to lower her standards by marrying one.
Lol.
Most men in their 20’s are celibate and many choose to stay that way.
It also appears that marriage is giving up on many younger women these days.
I wonder if it has anything to do with manufacturing industries being hollowed out and offshored, and whether that would lead to more male unemployment
Have you seen some of the young men lately? Would make Tim Walz and Adam Schiff look like Clint Eastwood.
I think there are a lot of David Hogg types around. Look at some of the woke rallies or anti-semitic college ones where a wimpy guy is between three or four overweight, homely girls with purple and lime green hair who probably can’t remember the last time they took a shower.
I read that women can’t help their ancient evolutionary yearnings for men with the potential of taking care of them and children, as shown by a lower voice (showing testosterone) and an aggressive personality. This is despite their stated admiration of pro-feminist, unassertive non-toxic males.
They are said to talk one way but respond another, leaving males baffled and resentful.
Yup.
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