Online Guide by Topic, and Singlism Update
Two quick notes. Last year, I wrote a post for Living Single in which I gathered some links to previous posts and listed them by topic. I just added a…
Friendsight: What Friends Know that Others Don’t
I usually do not cross-post from my Living Single blog. Instead, I write different posts for Psychology Today and All Things Single, with the latter sometimes a bit more personal….
A Personal Perspective on Taking on Singlism
When I first focused on the study of singles and singlism, I was a tenured full professor at a major university and I thought I would continue to be a…
David Boaz Embeds Some Singlism in His Op-Ed
In a recent op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, David Boaz includes some needless stereotyping in an otherwise compelling argument. Here’s the letter I wrote to the editor, which you…
Help a Non-Profit So You Can Reel in a Mate?
With Valentine’s Day approaching, my inbox is filling up with the usual pitches from people who think that since I write about single life, what I and my readers must…
NY Times Asks about Naughty and Nice Single and Married Men
Over at Living Single, I wrote an in-depth critique of a recent study about single men and their purportedly more anti-social behavior than married men. In the first post, Actual…
The Heart of Friendship (Or, What the Pew Marriage Researchers Just Don’t Understand)
The Pew and Time magazine report generating all those headlines (mostly about how 39% of Americans think marriage is becoming obsolete) set out to look beyond just married people to…
The Marriage Penalty That Has Nothing to Do with Taxes
If you’ve read Singled Out, you know my take on the so-called marriage penalty in taxes – it is actually a bonus. Single people are the one who get penalized….
Special Offer, New Chapter, and Blog Crawl News
Blog crawl news first. The featured writers today were Lisa and Christina from Onely. They wrote a great post hosted by Living Single called Fun with fallacies: The rhetoric of…