Writer's Block: Go it alone

[johncomic]

[Error: unknown template qotd] I don't think there really is social pressure. There are a lot of social assumptions, but no real backlash if those assumptions turn out to be incorrect. Anybody that I've seen experience pressure re settling down and reproducing, was experiencing familial pressure rather than social.

I will say, though, that in the 60s there was very real social pressure about these things. There was “something seriously wrong with you” if you didn't wanna get married and/or have kids. It wasn't merely an option that you were free to choose. Since then, I'd say that society's attitudes in general have really changed. Or so it appears to me.

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[ginsu.livejournal.com]

I wonder if this is a gender thing.

There is no male equivalent for "old maid" and no female equivalent for "bachelor." The phenomenon of the bridezilla is so common as to be expected; there is no male variation. Biological clocks are largely theoretical for men. There is no male rendition of the Bridget Jones/Allie McBeal/Sex and the City story of single thirtysomething men who coasted through their twenties, then suddenly feel the dating power shifting to the other side. Etc, etc, etc.