One final addendum: Slate offers an interesting rebuttal to The End of Men 2: Faster and Furiouser →
via Kate Bolick herself (again, so magnanimous! and her 13 tweets thus far are pretty hilarious. Yeah, I want to be friends with this lady)
(Also, I realize I am really annoying when I talk about marriage. I should either rename this blog Justifying Marriage to Myself: It’s Not So Bad! or stop blogging about it altogether.)
I like this article too! It address my major problems with the last one in its very first paragraph, regarding “unquestioned assumptions and straight up fallacies: that evolutionary psychology is a real science instead of 21st century phrenology, […] that the whole nation looks like New York City’s notoriously brutal dating marketplace”. Also: looking forward to the decline of sexism! How nice.
I’m sure I wouldn’t have found that last article nearly so thought-provoking if I weren’t currently living in New York, which I have found is every bit as awful to date in as everything you’ve ever seen or read about it would suggest, only with less comedy/drama and more malaise and depression. Honestly, my desire to actually find a someone to possibly-marry (depending on their credit rating) is a major reason why I plan on moving away shortly after I get my degree, because I just don’t see this place as offering a decent option, even with its over 8 million people. So I like that the article in the Atlantic offers up some options for how to handle unwanted (semi?) permanent singledom without feeling like a pariah, even if their explanations of why I’m single don’t apply and/or are totally wrong.
But I do agree that in New York, at least, the quality of most available men is just terrible. Dear lord, deliver me from struggling creative types.
