[Walkingfeather]

And how many on that list were bachelors because they were Gahey?

[ottbmare]

Oh, good, let’s have another thousand-post thread with the usual suspects ranting about how awful women are vs. how awful men are, with all voices for reason and moderation shouted down.

[JamesP81]

This thread ought to be interesting.

[dolphins]

The article made good points for and against being a male and single. Bachelorhood for me has been glorious. I’m a conservative, go to church, read, garden, cook, clean, date and budget my own finances. This notion that society holds about marriage being the model of how to live is just not correct. Feminists have destroyed the traditional roles that made marriage work in the past. Today’s young women see marriage as a short term proposition so why should young men buy into such a costly and risky venture?

[caveat emptor]

Misogynist twaddle. The guy lucked out in support of his spew with a fair list of very famous names - but many on his list were very screwed up people, and that might better account for their lack of marriage rather than any supposed superior knowledge of women.

Far more people, talented, intelligent, hardworking, un-tormented, and married have made significant contributions, many surpassing his high profile names.

Here's a sample. Tycho Brahe and Kepler (gave empirical support and mathematical precision to Copernicus' speculations), Lavoisier (vs. Boyle), Faraday, Kelvin, Darwin, Marie Curie (Nobel Prize winner in two different sciences), Einstein, Werner von Braun, Edwin Teller, Alfred E. Newman.

And that's just scientists.