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Or, rather, they are dissected, thoroughly examined - not by a class of seventh-graders using microscopes but by a table of 30-something women, well into their third bottle of wine.Oh, we can collectively cry, Double standard!! over the sad fact that never-married women of a certain age aren’t players they’re pitied. Definitely gay.īut in a way, steadfastly heterosexual single men over 40 are sort of pitied too.
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Anyone with salt-and-pepper hair who shows up in your online matches as “Never Married” might as well come with a flashing Warning Sign, say women with marital aspirations who date them anyway. Still, even Clooney was once briefly married. Unless, of course, the perpetual bachelor is George Clooney - and let’s be honest, most aren’t. But I wondered: As marriage inches toward the take-it-or-leave-it category - for both sexes - and there are more never-married men between the ages of 40 and 44 than ever before (20.4 percent at last census count), is being a perpetual (hetero) bachelor still considered a little … creepy?Īpparently, yes. Especially back in 1970, when they represented only 4.9 percent of the male population. In many ways, he’s right: Never-married heterosexual men over the age of 40 have always had a stigma. Anyone with salt-and-pepper hair who shows up in your online matches as ’Never Married’ might as well come with a flashing Warning Sign.