There seemed some kind of synergy between these three articles, though two of them appear to contradict one another:
Almost everyone who is single is single for the same reason - becos they is picky picky picky.
Which is one way of saying, they are no longer obliged to settle for what they can get as a necessary stage in the life-cycle.
Though I ( Read more... )

I had previously been unaware of this horrible initiative, Talk to Me London. This is not a good thing to encounter on an already misanthropic Monday.

There is not enough AAAAAAARRRRRGGGHHHH in the world, is there, my dearios?

I am seldom in concurrence with the younger male columnists of the Guardian, but Stuart Heritage has the right stuff in him ( Read more... )

I will concede that between [ETA: trigger warning for misogyny and violence, and caution to avoid the comments at all costs] Unilad and the Imperial College 'give her Rohypnol for Valentines' thing, this has been a particularly 'men are terribly poor stuff' week.

However, I cannot work up any sympathy for this lady and her terrible plight in ( Read more... )

According to Lori Gottlieb, all any woman wants is to be married. It's time all those singletons learned to settle for second best. And The Guardian thought this was worth wasting newsprint on why? (Its natural home is probably Observer Woman).

Are we really entirely surprised that someone who is self-admittedly in search of 'Mr That One Will Do, ( Read more... )

A new survey asks what our motivations are for having sex. Novelist Melissa Bank imagines the stories behind the brutally candid answers, in the course of which we discover that the respondents were undergraduates at the University of Texas, 96% aged 18-22, 25% of whom had not even had sex, plus, 'a whopping 36% were Christian fundamentalists'. I ( Read more... )

Dame Judi Dench is going to be sweet silly saintly Miss Matty Jenkyns in Cranford, 'shy spinster'.

Nice contrast and stretch from Evil Psycho Spinster in Notes on a Scandal.

From today's Observer:

Constant cravings
Once it was alcohol and cigarettes. Now it is anything from Viagra to text messaging to sushi. With the modern age has come a whole new world of vices.
Wow, the sheer originality of the idea that the modern age has entirely new vices: how far back does that one go? I bet it was already old by the time of the ( Read more... )