Seeking Happily Ever After, Ever After!

Seeking Happily Ever After, Ever After! December 8, 2013

Posted by Onely in film review, Great Onely Activities, Honorary Onely Awards, Reviews, Some Like It Single.
Tags: marriage myth, producer michelle cove, seeking happily ever after, singles blog, singles film
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Copious Readers, several months ago Onely was excited to view and review the independent pro-single-women film Seeking Happily Ever After. Now it’s more widely available on DISTRIFY, where anyone in an English-speaking country (for now) can rent it from their own computer. (Distribution in non-English-speaking countries has not been implemented yet due to the cost of subtitling.)
Producer Michelle Cove provides some statistics that drive home the need–or rather, the market–for pro-singles films such as Seeking Happily Ever After:

• The number of single women has more than doubled over the past three decades. –2011 General Lifestyle Survey Overview from the Office for National Statistics

• In England, Germany, the Netherlands and the United States, approximately one in five women in their late 40s remaining childless. –Yale Global Online, 2012

• In Australia, almost 1/3 women aged 30 to 34 do not have a partner.–Census statistics

• 62% of U.S. residents 18 and older have never been married. –U.S. Census, 2011

• In Scandinavia, the majority of mothers in all social classes are unmarried.—Sociologist and leading researcher on men and masculinity

• In Spain, 92% of women do not censure the fact that they have had a child without a partner.—NSI (National Statistics Institute)

Buoyed by the success of Happily Ever After, we at Onely hope that one day someone will make a film about single men. Granted, women are more immersed in the White Dress Marriage Myth and hence the greater need for a film such as SHEA. But a positive film about unmarried men would be interesting too. Any takers?
–Christina

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1. Michelle Amy Cove-Writer - December 8, 2013: Thanks, Christina! I would love to see a doc on single men. I was surprised by how much pressure they told me they face to marry and have babies. Starting at 30, men get an earful from relatives and especially other guy friends who are getting married. Barring the biological clock issue, there are many similarities, and I, for one, no longer believe male singles have it free and easy like I thought before filming. There are enough stereotypes to go around, it seems.

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2. Chris Amies - February 19, 2014: I’m interested in the single-male stereotype as well. There is a lot of pressure from other males – the word ‘sad’ gets used a lot, the implication being that while single women are active and have lots of friends, single men have no friends and no life. Also, men are often valued or derided according to how much sex they’re perceived as having (a kind of slut-shaming in reverse I suppose).

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