“Moral of that story is, I was in a relationship, and I wasn’t happy, so I left that relationship. I’m not advocating for leaving the person you’re with, what I’m advocating for is this. If you’re not happy, the fear of being alone… that is no reason to stay.
We like to scare women. And I’m sure there are men that feel this way. But we like to scare women when they’re single, and we like to be mean to them. And we label them. We say mean things to them. “She’s a spinster, an old maid, a reeling ball of animal rescue…” like we have names like that. And we like to question them as if there’s something wrong. “Why are you single???” “Cause the last one was a dick, and I’m not stupid!” Like that’s why you do it… nobody wakes up married! Nobody is born BETROTHED to someone! We have to be kinder to women, and stop doing it. And we have the audacity to have magazines, self-help books, articles posing the question, “you’re single; now what?” “You’re single; now what?”
What the fuck do you mean, now what?
Now I shave off an eyebrow and take up with wolves? What do you mean, now what?
I got a mortgage! How about, “Fuck bitches - get money!”
What upsets me is that women spend so much time and energy flogging themselves mentally for being single. And trying different methods of looking for guys… and men don’t have to do that. They have the luxury of just relaxing because they don’t have eggs.
There are no articles in GQ like “you’re single; now what?” There’s none of that. Because the answer would always be, “now I can jerk off where I want and no one bugs me HASHTAG SANDWICH”.
-Iliza Shlesinger, “Confirmed Kills”
