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Reader Feedback on "History of Single Life: Love and Money"
Your writing is burdensome
--DL
03/12
I have to admit, "We'll get 'em next time, tiger" made me laugh. Anyway, I'm revisiting the issue for the next column... and I'll do it more better. Promise!
--KenM
03/10
I've really enjoyed your past essays because they are well-researched and up the sexy with an academic sheen. Not so with this essay. It was full of cliches and stereotypes masquerading as evidence, and the only academic reference (Bourdieu) was poorly understood. Sorry. We'll get 'em next time, tiger.
--PYC
03/10
Whatever. I rule at hunting woolly mammoths, and therefore chicks dig me in my loincloth.
--LW
03/10
Geniusly written article and it is par for discussions that I have had with a very good, and old, friend of mine. It's funny because the writer hits on areas of my life and what he says makes perfect sense about hooking up, dating, and marriage. When I was the "hot bass player" in the 1980s, I was broke, living on $400.00 a month and I dated models. I mean, these women were HOT. In 1993 at the age of 31 I began college (again) and received a degree in engineering. My dating pool began to shrink by my paycheck increased. Being an extrovert, one girl told me that I was the only engineer that she had ever met with a personality and a sense of humor. Now I am 45 and I work for the federal government in finance. Well, guess what? I am still not married, my fiancee and I broke up in 2006 while I was in Iraq, at which time I made $179k. Yep, the old paycheck increased but right now, I am sitting on my couch, healing from a sinus surgery, wondering who is going to be a date for dinner this summer. That is, if I can find one. Go figure. lol.
--sdj
03/07
It must be nice for you, dude, to believe that your personality and your intellect and your creativity and your soul are what attract women to you. Too bad all that creativity can't help you imagine what it's like to be told that if you're a woman, all your social capital - and your worth - is on the outside. Fuckwad. Essentialist pseudoscience is a dangerous weapon in the hands of pissants like you.
--KCR
03/03
I'm betting the "muddy the gene pool" comment sounded cool inside the author's head and might be considered witty within his circle of friends. From out here though, it sounds vaguely racist, like it was written by someone who considers his own cultural signifiers to be obvious indicators of genetic desirability. Annoying, and there wasn't really a point at the end of it either. Jeers to Ken Mondeshmumuh.
--IM
03/03
So, men who lack money and prestige may be able to profit from their cultural capital in a specific, rarified context (as bass players or dudes in pubs with accents), and end up with a Miranda anyway? Good for you. Is there any alternative route for women? You suggest not, and join the idiotic chorus of mainstream media that presumes to tell women that education, professional success, creativity, and independence are worthless (or, worse, liabilities) when it comes to finding a partner. Shame on you for perpetuating this damaging (and largely false, it would seem to me, if you take your examples from real life instead of from Sex and the City) little story.
--ANY
03/03
Sloppy, unstructured writing. A reference back to Sex and the City does not a conclusion make. Please be a little more rigorous, and lose the self-congratulatory tone.
--AD
03/03


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