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- NYP: Why is the trend of increasing singledom in America so significant, and why should we pay attention to it now?
- Scandurra: There’s 100 million singles in the country right now, and that’s massive statistical jump. While we were in the midst of exploring the homeowner issue, the meter ticked over to the other side toward singles. Singles currently head the majority of households in the United States, and that’s never happened before.
- NYP: Experts in the documentary share concerns that media and television have raised people’s expectations to unrealistic heights, leading many to chase after perfect relationships or partners. Given that there are so many singles urgently seeking partners, could we be giving the media too much credit?
- Atkinson: I think we’re bombarded with more perfect looking people than ever through Hollywood and the media, further perpetuated by reality TV shows, and it has an impact. TV and the Internet has opened up the whole world and created a lot of options, so expectations rise. People give up more easily when a relationship hits some rocks, and look for the next thing.
- Scandurra: Online dating sites and the role of technology may have made meeting people easier, but maintaining relationships is harder, because you have too many options. Previous generations were limited to geographic locations and social groups, but now the options are endless. You could think, “Oh, I don’t like the way he cuts his hair, or the way he looks. I could probably find someone better.” We’ve created a disposable economy of people in the dating world.
- NYP: One of the social scientists interviewed jokes about the growing power of women and the eventual transformation of men into pets. Do you think there’s any truth in that?
- Atkinson: (laughs) Do I think there’s any truth in it? I don’t know! It’s a joke, but it kind of makes everybody think, doesn’t it? That’s the point.
I died laughing at 1:32
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nightmarebrunette: Phillip Toledano
The first passage that made me "lol" from Tao Lin's Eeeee Eee Eeee
- Andrew feels calm. "If you can't beat them join them," he says. Some days he feels calm. Today he feels calm. He feels strange. "Has anyone done that? Not beaten something...then joined it?"
- "If you can't join them buy them out," someone says.
- "Buy them presents," Andrew says, and makes a shit-eating grin at no one; at a pizza box. He is embarrassed for the pizza box. He folds it. 'Shit-eating grin.' He needs to stop. He needs to use his face to convey emotions to other humans in order to move sincerely through life--laughing in groups of three or four; expressing gratitude, concern, or disapproval about people, the weather, or food; and manipulating members of either sex to get them to love him, like him, or respect him. That is what a face is for.
Biblical tramp stamp FTW
This is too crazy to be mere coincidence, I had the exact same urge!
SOS Band - “Take Your Time (Do It Right)”
toomuchawesome: I don’t know why, but I just had the sudden need to hear this song.
New Winston video on Cute Overload. I <3 Winston and all smushy faced cats. In SF there’s this homeless guy with an expensive looking smushy faced cat that he keeps on a leash (the cat doesn’t seem to mind) and a sign that reads “Show Cat - Accepts Donations.” I’d like to know how this homeless fella procured this show cat, but damn if I wasn’t tempted to give that cat my bus money.
