[Little Ray]

Further proof that Womens Suffrage was really, really, REALLY bad idea.

[Iron Munro]

SUMMARY:

[Boogieman]

“Women are not abstaining from or delaying marriage to prove a point about equality. They are doing it because they have internalized assumptions that just a half-century ago would have seemed radical.”

Hahahahaha. She thinks the women have a choice in the matter!

[Lorianne]

Wouldn’t the number of single women be pretty much the same as the number of single men?

[VTenigma]

We wouldn’t have had any Democrat presidents in the last 50 years if it wasn’t for the female vote.

[equaviator]

I think she must have been talking to herself on the telephone.

[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

There is also the question of whether this vastly disparate group that runs the gamut of race and class and has largely defied the pull of identity politics can be unified and politically activated around its remarkably common needs. The independent woman, both high earning and low earning, looks into her future and sees decades, or even a lifetime, lived outside marriage, in which she will be responsible for both earning wages and doing her own domestic labor. This is the new social compact that she requires: stronger equal-pay protections that guarantee women's labor will not be discounted because of leftover assumptions that they are likely to be supported by husbands; a higher federally mandated minimum wage, which would help to alleviate the burdens of poverty on America's hardest and least-well-remunerated workers; a national health-care system that covers reproductive intervention, so that those who want to terminate pregnancies or have babies on their own or wait until they are older to do so are able to avail themselves of the best medical technologies; more affordable housing for single people, perhaps subsidized and with attendant tax breaks for single dwellers who choose to live in smaller, environmentally friendly spaces; criminal-justice reforms that address and correct the injustices of our contemporary carceral state; government-subsidized day-care programs; federally mandated paid family leave for both women and men who have new children or who need to take time off to care for ailing family members; universal paid-sick-day compensation, regardless of gender, circumstance, or profession; increases rather than continual decreases in welfare benefits; reduced college costs and quality early-education programs. Come to think of it, these policies would benefit lots of people who are not single women as well.

For years,some conservatives have argued that single women (and their votes) are a primary cause of the loss of freedom and the growth of the American nanny-state. They were, of course, roundly denounced as sexists. It's nice to see the women responsible finally begin to admit what has been asserted all along...

[grey_whiskers]

Promise them a cat on every porch, two eligible bachelors in every garage...or something.

[grey_whiskers]

[grey_whiskers]

“If women ran society, civilization would last until the next oil change.”

[rlmorel]

Seems like a narcissistic opinion piece.

[Mr. Jeeves]

It’s a simple binary yes/no decision. If a man who is even halfway awake hears the slightest hint of this type of rhetoric, he chooses “no” and moves on. Feminism really has simplified our lives. :)