"Brothers of the unpopped question"

quetzal writes "The St. Petersberg (FL) Times has printed its second front-page article in a series about single dating. Here is an excerpt from the Tuesday installment:

"Pepper Schwartz, a sociologist at the Univ. of Washington (and also a 'Relationship Expert' on PerfectMatch.com) says: 'One group[of middle-aged single men]...is the men nobody wants...They don't earn money or they are obese... They are losers in the truest sense of the word.'"

Ed. note: Check out the discussion on this article here. Also take a look at the first installment in the series. As you may have gathered from the quotation above, the series tone is most definitely not male-friendly, and it's also incredibly shallow in its analysis as well. Maybe they'll do better on the next two parts but I wouldn't hold my breath. Among many other things, the picture that this stampede toward singleness and especially childlessness points to is quite clear: the problem of elder-care facilities being short on staff won't be improving any time soon!

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