[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Underachievers Anonymous

[Mary Jennings]

Kimberly wrote:

>Maybe it's Bridget Jones complex, but didn't you know it's the poor
>single girl who's the underachiever?  Can't get her act together and
>find a man, you know.  Tragic really, if she'd just do something
>about that hair/make a little effort/let me set her up/*take my
>advice*...  You see where I'm going.  Even Bridget had to have the
>love of the man before she got to be happy, so there you are.

Excellent point, Kimberly.  I've several friends who are single *by choice*, 
though most people don't believe that.  Heck, I was 26 when I married, 
almost old enough to be a hopeless spinster in some people's eyes.  One 
friend in particular, who is Palestinian, declared herself permanently 
single in her mid-twenties; at the same time most of her relatives had 
concluded she was a screaming lesbian as she wasn't married by the time she 
was 20 (as an aside, Virgini is heterosexual, but since she's a female 
aeronautical engineer she's not considered normal anyway).  I don't think 
there are many cultures where single women are revered nowadays, if any.

Even more annoying is the fact that single men are normal, but single women 
are not.  Single men are individual and carefree; single women are desparate 
and hopeless.  Wouldn't it be nice if we could *finally* shake off the 
shackles of Victorian (and earlier) stereotyping and just let individuals be 
individuals, eh?

Ooh, look...a flying pig!

Mary Ann
(who *does* remember being single and happy!)

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