Single Women Don’t Do Windows! October 27, 2008
Posted by Onely in As If!, Everyday Happenings.Tags: single homeowner, window installation
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I called around to some window companies, hoping to get an estimate on replacing the nine windows in my townhouse. During the initial phone conversations when I set up appointments, Prince William Home Improvement asked me, “When will you and your husband be available for an estimate?” Long Fence and Home asked me, “Do you have a husband?” And Homework Remodeling asked me, “Will your husband be there too?” (more…)
Rethinking Oneliness?! October 24, 2008
Posted by Onely in As If!.Tags: i love being single, junot diaz, polls
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Junot Diaz kissed me on the cheek!!! (more…)
Pop Culture, Scourge of the Onelys part 7×777: Completely Unscientific Onely Poll for Lori Gottlieb and The Nation October 7, 2008
Posted by Onely in As If!, Pop Culture: Scourge of the Onelys, Singled Out.Tags: bella depaulo, happily single, lori gottlieb, marry him!, single mothers, singlism, what was the nation thinking??
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Christina alerted me recently to a debate between our (admittedly) favorite singles expert, Bella DePaulo, and writer Lori Gottlieb, who wrote a rather infuriating article entitled “Marry Him!” that was published in The Nation back in February/March 08. I’m not going to touch the conversation between DePaulo & Gottlieb (see below for links to the full exchange), but I do want to ask our valuable, intelligent, anti-singlist and happily single readers the question that Gottlieb seems to already have answered for us:
You say you’re happy being single…
So, are you lying or just in denial?
Chemistry.com solicits Onely! October 6, 2008
Posted by Onely in As If!, Dating, Everyday Happenings.Tags: chemistry.com, dating sites, FMLA, single voters, singlism, strident
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On our post about dating sites capitalizing on National Singles Week, we tagged chemistry.com. Probably in response to our tag, a chemistry.com solicitor whom I shall call “J” (short for his name, not for “Jerk”) offered to hook me and Lisa up with eligible men for seven free days! Wooeeee!
“Dear Onely,” he says, “I noticed that your blog discusses the challenges that single women go through in today’s hectic world of dating.” Oh, J, you’re so sensitive! Are you available? (more…)
Get out the Onely vote! September 29, 2008
Posted by Onely in As If!, Food for Thought, Singled Out.Tags: newsweek, Sarah Palin lies, single voters, singlism, time, vote
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Single women only earn 56 cents to every dollar a married man makes!
Newsweek‘s and Time‘s coverage of the Sarah Palin VP campaign contains singlist rhetoric disparaging both childfree single women and single moms! (Even though single women form a key voting demographic that could sway the election.)
Bella DePaulo, a social psychologist specializing in singlism (and conveniently for us, also an expert on the social psychology of deceiving and detecting deceit) writes a restrained yet scathing post about these topics here on the Huffington Post. Check it out! And then—GO VOTE! (more…)
NATIONAL SINGLES WEEK: Quick, grab a partner! September 23, 2008
Posted by Onely in As If!.Tags: chemistry.com, mandy ginsberg, National Singles Week, National Unmarried and Single Americans Week, USA week
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WHOA here’s one for our “look what Google barfed up” file: The dating site Chemistry.com, in honor of National Singles Week, is offering free memberships so that national singles can find themselves some national nookie (as part of an established committed couple, of course). (more…)
FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT: Heteronormative and Singlist September 23, 2008
Posted by Onely in As If!.Tags: family and medical leave act, heteronormative, nucular, single, singlism
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Copious Readership, did you know that the Family and Medical Leave Act is heteronormative and singlist? Lookie here: (more…)
Onely speeches: who swarms? September 7, 2008
Posted by Onely in As If!, Everyday Happenings, Food for Thought.Tags: childfree, husbandfree, Obama, Sarah Palin, speech
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Copious Readership, help me out here:
If Barack Obama or Sarah Palin weren’t married with children, who would swarm out onto the stage to hug them after their big speeches? (more…)
Pop Music, Scourge of the Onelies (part 715_e): I wuv my woogums September 1, 2008
Posted by Onely in As If!, Food for Thought, music review, Pop Culture: Scourge of the Onelys, We like. . ..Tags: Bobby McGee, pop music, single, Stevie Wonder, woogums
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Why are most pop songs about love? Because it’s a state fraught with emotion just begging to be released in song. Fine; I get that. But of all the pop songs about love, why are most of them about man-woman couple love? Because that’s the kind of love our world seems to place above all other kinds of love. Not fine; I don’t get that. (more…)
Where’s your boyfriend? When are you getting married? YOUR RESPONSES REQUESTED August 31, 2008
Posted by Onely in As If!, Dating, Food for Thought.Tags: pee-filled puppy, rudeness, The Question, when are you getting married?
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Copious Readership, how would YOU have responded to these rude questions?
“So when are YOU getting married?” I got this question from a woman I had met five minutes earlier, after she heard that our mutual friend was engaged. (more…)
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