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I'm pretty sure not getting married is pretty popular with professional women too. Turns out they also have a career they care about. Who would've thought of wo

I'm pretty sure not getting married is pretty popular with professional women too. Turns out they also have a career they care about. Who would've thought of women as humans, right?

atomical 9y ago
Popular as a minority position?
- dguaraglia 9y ago
  Not sure what you mean. Considering there's slightly more males than females in the US, staying single must necessarily be an even smaller "minority position" for males.
  - atomical 9y ago
    The number of women who don't want to get married and have children is tiny. How could it be popular? > Who would've thought of women as humans, right? Is that really necessary?
    - dguaraglia 9y ago
      > The number of women who don't want to get married and have children is tiny. How could it be popular? You do realize the vast majority of marriages happen between men and women, and if only a "tiny minority" of women didn't want to get married, then by necessity only a "tiny minority" of men wouldn't be married? So either the article is overstating the phenomenon (by saying it's incredibly popular) or a similar amount of men and women must be choosing not to get married. > Is that really necessary? The OP was making the argument that "men choose not to get married because reasons." Seems like they never bothered to consider there's a significant amount of professional women that are not interested in getting married until later in life. There's been a lot of thinly veiled (and sometimes pretty blatant) misogyny around HN of late, that's why I made the joke about them probably having something do with it.
      - atomical 9y ago
        > The OP was making the argument that "men choose not to get married because reasons." Seems like they never bothered to consider there's a significant amount of professional women that are not interested in getting married until later in life. There's been a lot of thinly veiled (and sometimes pretty blatant) misogyny around HN of late, that's why I made the joke about them probably having something do with it. Are they required to mention a woman's perspective in every instance where they mentions a man's perspective to not be a woman hater?

I'm pretty sure not getting married is pretty popular with professional women too. Turns out they also have a career they care about. Who would've thought of women as humans, right?

atomical 9y ago

Popular as a minority position?

dguaraglia 9y ago
Not sure what you mean. Considering there's slightly more males than females in the US, staying single must necessarily be an even smaller "minority position" for males.
- atomical 9y ago
  The number of women who don't want to get married and have children is tiny. How could it be popular? > Who would've thought of women as humans, right? Is that really necessary?
  - dguaraglia 9y ago
    > The number of women who don't want to get married and have children is tiny. How could it be popular? You do realize the vast majority of marriages happen between men and women, and if only a "tiny minority" of women didn't want to get married, then by necessity only a "tiny minority" of men wouldn't be married? So either the article is overstating the phenomenon (by saying it's incredibly popular) or a similar amount of men and women must be choosing not to get married. > Is that really necessary? The OP was making the argument that "men choose not to get married because reasons." Seems like they never bothered to consider there's a significant amount of professional women that are not interested in getting married until later in life. There's been a lot of thinly veiled (and sometimes pretty blatant) misogyny around HN of late, that's why I made the joke about them probably having something do with it.
    - atomical 9y ago
      > The OP was making the argument that "men choose not to get married because reasons." Seems like they never bothered to consider there's a significant amount of professional women that are not interested in getting married until later in life. There's been a lot of thinly veiled (and sometimes pretty blatant) misogyny around HN of late, that's why I made the joke about them probably having something do with it. Are they required to mention a woman's perspective in every instance where they mentions a man's perspective to not be a woman hater?