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The rise of singlehood is reshaping the world: A great relationship recession is under way
The Economist ^ | 11/05/2025

Posted on 11/06/2025 8:47:10 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: T.B. Yoits
The power brokers are terrified of having to change divorce laws so they're promoting the lie that it's women who are choosing to be single.

Watching Mr. Kevin Samuels educated me to the fact that there is, indeed, a sizable percentage of (Black) women who genuinely, ardently believe that they can "hoe around" during their twenties and early thirties, only to "turn open the faucet" at, say, 35 - and the eager, marriage-minded men will simply start flowing. A lot of them called into Mr. Kevin Samuels, explaining that their "grand strategy" was to simply wait until their underage bastards graduated from high school and moved out and then to "re-enter" the dating market - whereupon they would, of course, enjoy the same, high level of attention as they did in their late teens. These women steadfastly refuse to acknowledge that, meanwhile, their SMV has plummeted.

A great many women regard men as nothing more than a utility - like the lights, gas, or water, which they can flick on and off at will.

Regards,

21 posted on 11/06/2025 10:39:17 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: SeekAndFind
[...] it is largely a consequence of something clearly benign: as barriers to women in the workplace have fallen, their choices have expanded. They are far more able than in the past to live alone if they choose, and face less social stigma for doing so.

If it results in the collapse of Western civilization, it is clearly not "benign."

I highly doubt that the author of this article would likewise describe men's "expanded choices" to forego feminine companionship and instead, e.g., amuse themselves, sitting in their mothers' basements, munching Cheetos and playing computer games as "clearly benign."

Regards,

22 posted on 11/06/2025 10:50:13 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Well, here's how I cleared the deck, so to speak.

1. No tats.
2. No nose rings.
3. For that matter, no grotesque piercings of any sort. Tasteful earrings are ok.
4. No obese. Obesity is grotesque and repellent. And smelly, too
5. No weird hair coloring.
6. No weird hair styles. Be feminine, ffs.
7. No bad teeth.
8. No hairy armpits, I mean, really.
9. No stink. I don't so you don't either.
10. No feminists, liberals, commies, socialists or other spiteful mutants.
11. Vegans are right out. Not going to squabble over food. I loves me a good New York Peppercorn, medium rare accompanied by a good ale. Or two. Burp.
12. No anti-gun/anti-self-defense hysterics.
13. No illiterates/semi literates. Where is your book and music library? Huh?
14. Hate Trump? Dialtone to you.

How am I doing so far?

23 posted on 11/06/2025 11:01:55 PM PST by Noumenon (They killed the guy who just wanted to talk. Now... now they've got me. KTF)
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To: frank ballenger

Call it “The Great Degeneration Of Society’’.


24 posted on 11/06/2025 11:12:30 PM PST by jmacusa ( Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: jmacusa

The Economist is Rothschild-owned globalist propaganda. Here pretending that this change wasn’t planned and orchestrated by 80 years of globalist, anti-Western civ propaganda. They don’t want more marriages and babies among the stinking masses any more than they want fewer trans story-telling hours at the local library.


25 posted on 11/06/2025 11:23:55 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: SeekAndFind

So many women I know have worthless jerks for husbands..she earns the money and he does off again on again jobs..who needs that?.....


26 posted on 11/07/2025 12:03:00 AM PST by cherry
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To: Noumenon

No tattoos


27 posted on 11/07/2025 12:15:45 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: 9YearLurker

(Here pretending that this change wasn’t planned and orchestrated by 80 years of globalist, anti-Western civ propaganda)

👍👍


28 posted on 11/07/2025 12:16:52 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: 9YearLurker

The Rothschilds, the Builderbergers. All one and the same.


29 posted on 11/07/2025 12:35:41 AM PST by jmacusa ( Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Secularism doesn't get enough scrutiny in these discussions. It pushes you to live your life by way of self-will, whitewashes the classical vocabulary of virtue and vice out of public consciousness, fosters jadedness then skepticism if not cynicism about other people, encourages casual contempt for humble truths and abstract detachment from real culture, is unduly fascinated with the phenomenon of psychological pliability and the dark uses of gimmickry to gain advantage, giving rise to entire industries centered around the systematization of temptation...

And we have government school to make sure that a society where people adhere to different religious teachings cannot continue naturally because that would just be too dangerous ??????

30 posted on 11/07/2025 1:09:02 AM PST by ClarityGuy
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To: ClarityGuy

Outstanding rumination.


31 posted on 11/07/2025 1:22:17 AM PST by rollo tomasi (Not this world but the next. Faith, justice, humility, hope, and most important, agape.)
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To: jmacusa

And you’ve got Thiel (IIRC Karp too) on the board of the Bs.


32 posted on 11/07/2025 1:25:19 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: SeekAndFind

Bfl


33 posted on 11/07/2025 2:04:25 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Democrats seek power through cheating and assassination. They are sociopaths. They just want power.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Liberal satanism in full view


34 posted on 11/07/2025 2:35:38 AM PST by Wpin ("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
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To: SeekAndFind
Some of these problems may be self-correcting. One obvious idea is for men to grow up, do a little more housework, behave more responsibly and so turn themselves into more desirable partners.

Another solution would be for younger women to get real with themselves for a change and realize that if they themselves are nowhere near the top 20% of all women in attractiveness, they are highly unlikely to get a man in the top 20% of attractiveness. Realizing that their youth is THE single most valuable asset that they have and that their own value on the dating market declines drastically as soon as their youth is gone (ie their 20s) and that therefore if they want to find a man and have a family, getting serious about settling down in their 20s instead of thinking they can wait until their 30s to do so is another obvious idea.

Of course, that would necessarily mean straight up rejecting decades of feminazi dogma which routinely gives women the most self destructive advice possible. It would also mean rejecting the propaganda put out by Hollywood and the Corporate Media. The self destructive advice taught by feminism and the result of women following this advice is why women report themselves as being far less happy than women 50-60 years ago reported themselves as being.

35 posted on 11/07/2025 2:56:08 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: alexander_busek
Watching Mr. Kevin Samuels educated me to the fact that there is, indeed, a sizable percentage of (Black) women who genuinely, ardently believe that they can "hoe around" during their twenties and early thirties, only to "turn open the faucet" at, say, 35 - and the eager, marriage-minded men will simply start flowing. A lot of them called into Mr. Kevin Samuels, explaining that their "grand strategy" was to simply wait until their underage bastards graduated from high school and moved out and then to "re-enter" the dating market - whereupon they would, of course, enjoy the same, high level of attention as they did in their late teens. These women steadfastly refuse to acknowledge that, meanwhile, their SMV has plummeted.

Feminism actively encourages women to waste their youth hoe-ing around or in school. Far FAR too many women do not recognize the value of their youth until its far too late. Because male attention comes to them early in their lives without them having to really work for it, too many of them take it for granted. They start thinking they really are that sexy or fun to be with and that "there will always be another" when in reality that just ain't so. In the old days, their mothers, grandmothers, aunts, etc used to set them straight...telling them not to waste their youth, that they needed to find a good man, that they need to put more emphasis on finding a man who would be a good and loyal partner was vastly more important than find one who was 6 feet tall or finding one who was responsible was more important than finding one who got a piece of paper from a university.

That's gone now. Now their influences are Hollywood, TV programs, things they read in places like Vogue magazine, etc and those influences are steeped in feminism. Many do not realize they've been sold on a pack of lies that will lead to their unhappiness until they find themselves in their early to mid 30s and discover that men just aren't pursuing them anymore...ie that they're not that sexy or fun to be with (any more). Then they get very bitter and angry about it. Usually that's directed at all men in general. It should be directed at the people who told them those self destructive feminist lies in the first place.

36 posted on 11/07/2025 3:09:48 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: toddausauras

With the shutdown the govt. no longer provides ‘single mothers’ thousands of dollars per month in food and housing benefits for keeping fathers out of their homes and their children’s lives.

She gonna have to have Pookie or RayRay get a job and move in to support her and her kids. And maybe lose a few hundred pounds too.


37 posted on 11/07/2025 3:14:36 AM PST by Justa (Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people....)
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To: SeekAndFind

Gee, what man doesn’t want to lose half his assets, his house, his children and pay a salary to his Ex for cheating?

Misogynists?


38 posted on 11/07/2025 3:21:12 AM PST by Justa (Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people....)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Some of these problems may be self-correcting. One obvious idea is for men to grow up, do a little more housework, behave more responsibly and so turn themselves into more desirable partners. “

Ugh stay single men..


39 posted on 11/07/2025 3:27:28 AM PST by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...x)
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To: SeekAndFind

Coincidentally...euthanasia is becoming more acceptable. There will be a lot of unloved elderly people lying around, in a few decades. “Draining our resources,” as they say.
Right now they are all for their careers and travel and...stuff. Making families — what a bother! It creates limitations, who wants that? /S


40 posted on 11/07/2025 3:32:33 AM PST by Buttons12 ( )
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