I consider myself a feminist of sorts, but I still think everyone wants to be loved.
Its not even that - it's in the human nature to want to be connected to someone on the very base levels - it's why we stick with family, its why we make friends - wanting a companion is in our very instincts.
I think society - most especially the entertainment that comes from our society - puts a lot of pressure on have a SO. And mostly on women. You see all this hailing of the bachelor, how it's the ultimate way to be if you're a twenty-something man, but almost always when you're shown the single woman she's desperate or depressed or just plain annoying. I think you can be proud to be single.
But it's really annoying when that cloying couple at next to you at dinner are acting like the "it" clique you thought you'd gotten rid of in high school.
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Date: 2009-12-09 07:43 pm (UTC)Its not even that - it's in the human nature to want to be connected to someone on the very base levels - it's why we stick with family, its why we make friends - wanting a companion is in our very instincts.
I think society - most especially the entertainment that comes from our society - puts a lot of pressure on have a SO. And mostly on women. You see all this hailing of the bachelor, how it's the ultimate way to be if you're a twenty-something man, but almost always when you're shown the single woman she's desperate or depressed or just plain annoying. I think you can be proud to be single.
But it's really annoying when that cloying couple at next to you at dinner are acting like the "it" clique you thought you'd gotten rid of in high school.