This, I thought, was really good and thought provoking:
Ultimately, the biggest problem with singles today isn’t that men aren’t tall enough, or that women have too many tattoos, or that everyone is too ugly. Most people simply aren’t meeting at all, and a recession or enforced monogamy isn’t going to make it easier for people to meet each other. Despite my article being maligned as misandrist neener-neenering to the bottom 50% of men, it wasn’t meant that way. Most of the men who find themselves single and frustrated don’t actually hate women, and aren’t undeserving of a partner—they’re plagued by social anxiety and a lack of charisma, which are reinforced by not interacting with enough people. The fewer women to whom they talk, the more terrified they are of rejection. It’s a vicious cycle that only gets worse without action taken to reverse it.
Read the whole thing. I know many of you won’t agree with it, but there are more than a few grains of truth there for my money.
J.