The New Normal: Singleness in America

BreakPoint ^ | 11 Dec 03 | Chuck Colson

[Mr. Silverback]

He may not have been the first to think of it, of course, but Kim Stanley Robinson had some nomadic tribes of singles roving about in Blue Mars, the last book in his Mars Trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars).

[Mr. Silverback]

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[thoughtomator]

It's a symptom of a vital need for new marriage law. Enslave-the-father is not a solution, it's a deterrent.

[steve-b]

Puh-leeze. Declining to give someone a government subsidy is not "denigrating". Colson sounds like a bodily-secretions "artist" who whines about his "rights" being violated by NEA cutback.

[Jim Cane]

Enslave-the-father is not a solution, it's a deterrent.

Once a man is tamed, women become bored. In my experience, if you are nice to women, they will leave you, and if you treat them with reckless disdain, they will cling. Men - unless you have some need to make and raise children, stay single and enjoy life. It's a Baskin Robbins world of women out there - every size, shape, color, behaviour just waiting to be sampled.

[RosieCotton]

With that attitude, you certainly should not get married.

[Alberta's Child]

There is a very legitimate concern about this issue, though -- regardless of how the government may or may not "subsidize" one group or another.

Once the portion of single people in a population reaches a critical mass, you have a serious problem with families being at a competitive disadvantage in economic terms when it comes to meeting even their most basic needs. This is why, for example (without even knowing this from any source -- I just know that it is true by definition), the average cost of housing in an area is almost always inversely proportional to the percentage of households comprised of families. This is a particularly serious problem in areas where unmarried couples (heterosexual or homosexual), or married couples with no children, outnumber families.

[Lazamataz]

I'm willing to marry the first girl who asks........

......for the night. I only marry for one night at a time.

[Uncle Miltie]

"if you treat them with reckless disdain, they will cling. Men - unless you have some need to make and raise children, stay single and enjoy life. It's a Baskin Robbins world of women out there - every size, shape, color, behaviour just waiting to be sampled."

Positively Clintonesque!

[Jim Cane]

With that attitude, you certainly should not get married.

With experience comes knowledge. And you are correct, I should not marry, nor should any sane man.

[RosieCotton]

Except Clintong manages it WHILE married...if you can call that a marriage.

[RosieCotton]

Here's hopin' there are still a few insane ones out there, then.

[Jim Cane]

You get burned a few dozen times, and you start to realize that women
are pigs for the most part. Nice looking pigs that you want to touch in an iterative process, but never, oh never live with.

[Little Ray]

And if you have been trained to be polite and courteous, you can't even get a date!

[CajunConservative]

Enslave-the-father is not a solution, it's a deterrent.

Once a man is tamed, women become bored. In my experience, if you are nice to women, they will leave you, and if you treat them with reckless disdain, they will cling. Men - unless you have some need to make and raise children, stay single and enjoy life. It's a Baskin Robbins world of women out there - every size, shape, color, behaviour just waiting to be sampled.

Good decent women, make that ladies, run from men with attitudes like yours. We don't settle for crass behavior.

[Campion]

And you are correct, I should not marry, nor should any sane man.

The attitude you describe is that of an adolescent boy, not a man. Women, at least the good ones, are not things meant to be "sampled" (read "used"). They're human beings who deserve to be loved.

If you think I don't have enough "experience" to know what I'm talking about: I'm a male, 42, married 15 years to a great lady, 4 kids, couldn't be happier.

[CajunConservative]

And if you have been trained to be polite and courteous, you can't even get a date!

Maybe you are looking in the wrong place then.

[Calpernia]

ping

[lelio]

Now, first let me say that it's important for Christians, when examining this trend, to avoid pointing fingers or acting as if singles are somehow inferior to married people.

Especially considering the divorce rate.

[cajungirl]

Now you have convinced me that you are putting us on, seeking attention, and are probably ,,oh,,,17 years old.