"The choice not to marry isn’t necessarily a conscious rejection of marriage.It is the ability to..."

“The choice not to marry isn’t necessarily a conscious rejection of marriage.It is the ability to live singly if an appealing marriage option doesn’t come along”

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Rebecca Traister, author of All the Single Ladies, on the declining marriage rates among adult women.

Single By Choice: Why Fewer American Women Are Married Than Ever Before

(via npr)

I see this as a consequence of “girl power.”

We spent a generation telling girls they can do anything they dream of, but never at any point did anyone think to tell boys that they have to meet girls halfway.

The result is we have a generation of men who continue to believe they are entitled to all the marital, social, economic and political privileges their 1940’s counterparts had, and a generation of women who know they deserve true partnership and refuse to settle for table scraps.

Men love to blame women who who are treated poorly by men by saying it’s women’s fault for having low standards.

Well here we have statistical proof of what happens when women raise their standards.

Men don’t meet them.

(via lierdumoa)