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These women aren't necessarily living solo, they're just living without a husband. They could be living with a partner, or with friends, or alone.

I'm sure--at least I hope--that there are going to be more Slog postings later regarding that 51%.

Beyond just being a number, what are we to take away from this? That a majority of woman have acknowledged they can be perfectly happy without marriage--or will this be some new statistic thrown at single women to make them feel bad about themselves?

Or they could be lesbians who would have been held hostage by the marriage bonds of the patriarchy in the past but now are refused the right to marry, but must bear the insult of being called "living without a spouse." Also the "women" of the survey includes females starting at age 15! With both men and women marrying later then ever for various reasons, is it valid to compare 2007 with 1950? I just found it odd. "The 15 year olds just don't need a man like they used to!"

This is EXACTLY why I bitch about smoking bans....if I thought they were going to end with public places, bars and restaurants (which I actually think is reasonable) I could get behind them....but they are just one step in the goal of making it completely illegal.

No love for the Wire? Omar is gonna get them fools!!

...but they are just one step in the goal of making it completely illegal.

Gee, Diana. Do you think it should be legal for you to bash my brains in with a baseball bat...so long as you do it on the grounds of your apartment complex?

No?

Then what's the difference?

The real question is why Erica Barnett hasn't written a post complaining about the single women article being oh-so-sexist yet.

What got me was that this "spouse-less women" article and a companion piece on college women's basketball teams practicing with men took up 3/4 of the front page of the PI! Isn't there anything actually happening anywhere that we need to know about? Some pressing news?

I think that Senator Boxer summed it up perfectly when she pointed out that a single, childless woman (Condi Rice) can’t have a valid perspective, and thus must be an unfulfilled freak living on the fringes of society. I find it terribly liberating that we can now openly recognize this without offending feminists. We have come along way baby.

Also, where is the line forming for all these soon to be available fire sale mortgages on downtown Seattle condos with water views? (I’m ready to move into the new Four Seasons as soon as construction is done but, until now, believed it was out of my price range.)

1) Regarding #9: you are being purposely dishonest. Boxer did not single out Condi, but actually said that the two of them were exactly alike in not having "immediate family members" whose lives were threatened by the Iraq war. This right wing meme isn't even remotely creative. None of us can help it if the GOP is so freaked out Condi might be a closet case that they go Code Red when somebody points out she doesn't have a military aged family member who could die in Iraq.

2) Here's an interesting take on the political significance of the "spouse-less" women - they lean notably toward Democratic candidates. http://haloscan.com/tb/digby/116897427693542843

OOOPs. That link doesn't go anywhere. Here's the link to the "spouse-less women hate GOP" post. (I hope)

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007_01_01_digbysblog_archive.html#116897427693542843

@10

Okay, so their current marital/child bearing status render them both lacking of a valid perspective, and thus unfulfilled freaks living on the fringes of society. I guess Babs believes that you must be, or have been, lactating today, or in the last 18 to 20 years, to have a valid perspective as a woman, and thus not be an unfulfilled freak living on the fringes of society. I wish she would clarify her position, because I think it could explain a lot of strange behavior.

Is it really "living" if you are a single woman? Doesn't every woman long to be married to a loving husband?

Go forth & multiply my children!

Kidding me:
You are totally missing the point. Boxer was very clear in as direct a way as you can have in DC. To paraphrase:

"Condi, neither of us has a family member likely to die in this hell hole you and your boss made, excuse, and perpetuate, but I still care that people will suffer and die and you don't. You heartless bitch."

Or maybe she meant "soulless vampire."

Personally I find it encouraging that fewer and fewer men are falling into the female trap of hearth & home. This is all the more remarkable as all the world knows that a woman seeking a husband is the most unscrupulous of all the beasts of prey.

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Funny, all I heard was “silly woman, you have no children, what right have you to have an opinion on anything?” I guess it all depends on “what the meaning of is is”.

It might also depend on your sanity, or lack thereof.