Most young men are single. Most young women are not.

It's weird how many articles come out that walk around the fact that most men these days are just not even acceptable candidates for any type of relationship.

It’s beyond reprehensible how little community responsibility grown adult men are willing to make. Forget romantic prospects: I’m talking *any* collective giving.

How do I know? I’ve all but completely divested from male friendships. Save for a very small few, most have shown themselves to be incapable of appropriate levels of social reciprocity. They were content with women doing emotional and social labor of which they availed themselves plentifully.

So to the tune of ‘NSync: BYE BYE.

I’d rather be completely solo at the bottom of a no-exit ditch than belabor myself for an ungrateful non-reciprocated exchange with a man ever again so help me God.

Key quote:

“Today in America, women expect more from men,” Levant said, “and unfortunately, so many men don’t have more to give.”

Lmao 😂

Maybe we’re just seeing what the natural rate of male/female relationships would always have been if women hadn’t been oppressed forever and therefore coerced into partnering with men.

That, combined with most men being shit partners, yea, I think a lot of women would opt out from that, or at least from a patriarchally traditional version.

Also, I highly recommend reading the article linked in the article posted here. (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-state-our-unions/202208/whats-behind-the-rise-lonely-single-men)

It actually addresses mens deficiencies as the reason for many men's dating failures.

Maybe young women think they are in committed relationships, while their young men partners label themselves as single because they’re not married??

Schrodinger’s lesbians: they’re dating each other, but only until someone points out that lesbians wouldn’t date men anyway. Then they’re “too invested in friendships and careers”.

They are single because they believe their dream woman is still in primary school. That’s the real reason why men wait and experiment on women before they settle down for a woman 20 years younger than him. Some hit the wall fast and wants to settle down with a 40 something woman because she has enough experience to be his care taker for free, aka hospice wife. The problem with this is that women are giving men like that chances. Pickme‘s always whine that older men are better and that older men deserve love too. No, they deserve to die alone.

I think it was runawaysiren940 or someone else talking about how when men are lonely and single it's a "national crisis" (because we know many throw tantrums with violence when they don't get what they want). Meanwhile women are expected to just suck it up and endlessly berate ourselves for the "personal failure" of being single 🙄 I'm tired of articles about "lonely" men. Women are lonely too, but we don't make it everyone else's problem like a very loud minority of men do....

ETA: Just thought of this (haven't read the other comments yet): age gap relationships with an older man seem more common than ones with an older woman, right? So maybe the young women are less likely to be single because of that? 🤔

So women are marrying older men. That doesn’t answer the question in numbers. The only thing I can think is outside of lesbianism, some men must be dating 2 or 3 women at a time.

Bisexual men and women both want to date women and straight women would prefer to be single.

“Women are tiring of their stereotypical role as full-time therapist for emotionally distant men.“

…understatement of the century…

“poking fun of this reliance on women to do the emotional heavy lifting for them.”

yeah. i’d rather eat a waffle, hands down. i’d rather ride 50 miles on my road bike without cycling bibs than suffer 30 minutes with an emotionally braindead, undereducated scrote.

I'm speechless. In 2023, an nationally syndicated award winning newspaper is still pushing gender roles.