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There's been a lot of ink spilt over the issue of female singleness recently — but who are we really talking about when we talk about single ladies? And who's getting left out of the equation? More »
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Now that the percentage of married Americans has dropped to a dire 51%, reporters are talking to women about their shriveling ovaries and dim marriage prospects and finding them ... strangely unconcerned. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5869845&view=rss&microfeed=true In a recent issue of The Atlantic, Kate Bolick argues that the marriage is an ever-evolving social relationship and that, due to social and economic factors that are changing the ways that men and women behave, marriage is becoming less and less appealing to educated American women. Men are becoming less attractive as economic life partners, plus there aren't any good ones left, plus technology and stuff means that we don't need them to have kids. More »
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Modern hetero relationships appear to be in a period of flux. This is potentially interesting — so why does the conversation about it feel so circular? More »
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Single as a "choice" is the holy grail of feminist self-preservation while single but "looking for love" puts you in the position of nonstop speculation as to why you can't find love. On an interpersonal level, when you are single, no one believes that you can be happy even when you say you are. More »
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• According to a study out of the UK, women spend three years of their lives cooking, which is more than double the amount of time men spend in front of the stove. But there is good news:

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A few weekends ago in the Guardian, Professor Sarah Churchwell confronted the ghost of Bridget Jones and the persistent stereotype of the dismal singleton. More »
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In this promotional video for the book Three Wishes, three women explain how they passed on frozen sperm to a single friend, who then immediately found a husband! Expect Sisterhood of the Traveling Sperm to hit theaters in 2013. [Buzzfeed] More »
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Don't be fooled by Sex And The City and chicklit saturation: The advertising community has yet to catch up to the fact that single women shop for stuff other than shoes and clothes. More »
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Ricky Van Veen, cofounder of CollegeHumor.com, is looking for ladies (and gay men) to star in his new reality TV show, Married By 30. Oh yes, definitely, let's celebrate the bloodsport of misguided singles everywhere: Putting a deadline on love! More »
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BoingBoing's Lisa Katayama writes of a woman in San Francisco who walked into a restaurant, requested a table for two, and unfolded a three-foot cardboard cutout of a man, with whom she had dinner. Art project? Maybe. Or: Loneliness. More »
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Yesterday's Tyra featured a debate between heterosexual single women who believe that husbands and children hold women back from reaching their full potential and married, heterosexual women who believe that women aren't complete until they've found a man and started a family. More »
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Lea Lane at the Huffington Post finally makes a list of all the reasons she's still single so that it's all in one place and people will stop asking. I know how she feels. More »
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Former Gawker editor Doree Shafrir's story in today's New York Observer is about being an unmarried woman. Or more precisely, what people think of unmarried women. She writes: More »
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Lately, "cooking for one" is "a hot topic" that food magazines and cookbooks are covering with patronizing gusto. A piece in the Washington Post offers a slew of practical tips on the joys of freezing and shopping and cooking in bulk, all of them good. (And many of which the 'belles had already cottoned to!) But the real issue probably isn't how to cook for one (same process, less food) or what to do with leftovers (save 'em!) Rather, it's working up the mental energy to bother. More »
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The Dow is down, but Amy Borkowsky's hopes are high. She's trying to raise $3 million to buy a Super Bowl commercial, which will serve as a personal ad in her search for Mr. Right. Borkowsky, who, according to the New York Post, gives her age as "somewhere between Carrie and Samantha," has a background as an ad exec, so she knows how to target a market. "Dating is a numbers game," she says. "I need to reach a large pool of guys." She has a website, where she accepts donations toward her $3 million goal; she now has about $1,121. The question here is fairly obvious: Is this stunt embarrassingly desperate? Or is Borkowsky smartly going after what she wants? More »
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Dr. Pam Spurr is apparently a shitty therapist, because there's no other way to explain her Daily Male, I mean, Daily Mail column "Forget This Tosh About 'Freemales' - Single Women Who Say They Are Happy Are Lying." The title alone makes me want to shake her, but reading it, oh dear God, reading it made me realize that she also needs to lose her license to treat her patients and be shaken by the shoulders until the stupid falls out. Why is it that some people — usually women — think that the only path to personal fulfillment is at the end of an aisle? More »
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Hey, freemales! Yes, you, single ladies. In addition to being a stain the fabric of society by not being married, you are ruining the entire planet. According to a story in today's Guardian, energy conservation goals are being fouled up by "singletons." In its publication called Social Trends, the UK's Office for National Statistics reported tat recycling has increased from 7% to 31% over the last 10 years and domestic waste going to landfills has fallen from 84% to 58%. Yay! But energy consumed by lighting and electrical appliances has increased by 136% over the past 30 years, boo. And part of the problem? "Changing family structures." More »
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In today's Sydney Morning Herald, columnist Samantha Brett writes about the "Hollywood Freemale." What the hell is a freemale, you ask? It's a stoopid term coined to describe a woman who is single and loving it. She's female, and she's free — of males! Get it? Anyway, Ms. Brett points out that single women in Australia now outnumber married women for the first time since World War I. "Marriage is not the gateway to adulthood anymore," says social historian Stephanie Coontz. And celebrities are leading the way, since there are single stars like Jennifer Aniston, Cameron Diaz, Kate Hudson and uh, the Pussycat Dolls. Jen Aniston reportedly said being single is great because of "the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening." Drew Barrymore says being single "makes you a better lover." Cammie Diaz claims: "I love being alone and being by myself. And I'm really good at it too." But are these Hollywood freemales — and other non-famous single ladies — just kidding themselves? More »
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A new study by the UK's Trades Union Congress has found that if you're a single woman in your 30s, you're putting in way more unpaid overtime than men — or working mothers. Nearly 40% work additional hours, compared with 26% of single men the same age, reports Guardian. The TUC general secretary, Brendan Barber, says: "Women who want to get on at work need to put in longer hours than anyone else, but as soon as they have children they no longer have that option. It is hardly surprising that the senior levels of most organizations are male and that the gender pay gap stubbornly persists." But, point out women's activists, the system itself is unfair. "Women are being presented with impossible choices between caring for a family or maximizing career opportunities in a workplace that measures performance by the number of hours put in," says Kat Banyard, of the Fawcett Society (an organization dedicated to closing the inequality gap between men and women). Meanwhile, something known as "maternal profiling" is on the rise. More »
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Someone named Camilla Long, who used to work for British society magazine Tatler and now writes for the Times of London, has written a piece called "50 Reasons Why You're Still Single." [Update: The list appears to have been yoinked from a joke list done by Radar. For shame!] The list contains twenty-five dealbreakers for men and twenty-five for women, and 96% of them are ridiculous. Sure, there are single men who have "taken more than one mobile-phone photograph of [their] genitals" and "believe all worthwhile women are under 25." But there are plenty of single women who do not have a "lucky thong," a" calendar with pictures of babies in plant pots" or "five o'clock shadow" — including yours truly. Perhaps the list was meant to be humorous, but it reinforces a shitty and dangerous train of thought: If you're single, there must be something wrong with you. More »
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One time in my early twenties, I was home for a visit sans boyfriend and my mom started in with the inevitable passive-aggressive but pointed "you've been together with so-and-so for a long time" conversations that moms tend to have. Only, so-and-so and I were having issues and I didn't want to hear it, so I threatened to never get married if she didn't stop bugging me. Karma's a bitch, huh? But, the L.A. Times is out to make me feel better by publishing a story about other women my age with careers and no husbands — in Egypt! More »
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• Will women help elect the first female U.S. president? Female support for Hillary Clinton is propelling her to the top of the Democratic presidential heap. [Politico]

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