Is having boyfriend embarrassing?
Are we living in an era of "heteropessimism"? Are women over
marriage? These questions have gone viral in recent weeks as the
country continues to grapple with changing gender norms and the
effect the right wing radicalization of men has had on women's'
attitudes toward marriage and child bearing. This week, a new study
showing that, for the first time, female high school seniors were
less interested in marriage than male seniors provoked an online
debate about whether this was a consequence of growing male
conservatism, or alternatively, whether men were facing "bigotry"
from women who were making broad and essentialist claims about men.
Eighteen year old Zohran volunteer deemed "hot girl for Zohran" by
the New York post found herself on one side of the argument, while
Drop Site news journalist Ryan Grim found himself on the other. Bad
Faith brought them together to hash it out: Whose
fault is the male
loneliness epidemic, and if the root of the problem is economic,
how should the left express sympathy for victims of the root cause
without lacking sympathy for the female victims of
misogyny?