Last year sushi was in the hipster news, now it is the single woman and marriage. It appears to have started with Lori Gottlieb's 'Marry Him!' in the March, 2008 Atlantic.
Then it got on NPR's All Things Considered, Slate.com had a story about the evolutionary advantage for women who cheat, and The Claremont Institure posted A review of Marriage and Caste in America: Separate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Age, by Kay S. Hymowitz and The Future of Marriage, by David Blankenhorn.
And while women may like to settle for a guy who doesn't do everything for them what they may not realize about guys is as ALL's song 'Net' says, "the truth is that I feel better being miserable without than happy with someone else", so ladies, you have to watch out for that.
I have a long-held belief that many college seniors marry each other out of fear of being alone in the world post-college.
I also think that relationships are like stoves and you need to decide if you want to cook with electricity or gas? An electric cook-top is a practical partner but it heats unevenly and slowly; it doesn't get hot enough for some techniques; and when the electricity is out after a storm you can't cook. On the other hand there are many ways to generate electricity and it is a renewable resource. But there's always a flame with a natural gas range; it gets hot enough and is versatile enough for any kind of cooking; and even when the electricity is out there's still a spark. But it is also easy to burn yourself, you have to watch for flare-ups, and eventually natural gas will be depleted.
A dual-fuel model would be ideal for a lot of people.
