by Bella DePaulo | Nov 3, 2018 | ALL THINGS SINGLE, demographics, politics, Single women, singles rights and advocacy
One of the longstanding sources of frustration and disappointment among advocacy-oriented unmarried Americans is that political candidates rarely address us or promise to fight for us, the way they so often vow to stand up for married couples and traditional families. In their campaign materials, candidates who are married with children like to boast about that. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a candidate brag about not being married or not having kids, or even acknowledge their marital or parental status in their biographies, except perhaps for single mothers.
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by Bella DePaulo | Feb 14, 2015 | ALL THINGS SINGLE, demographics, family, Friendship, happiness, health, Matrimania, media, politics, singles in the military, singles rights and advocacy, singlism, Singlism and matrimania
[This article is co-authored – in alphabetical order – by Lisa Arnold, Rachel Buddeberg, Christina Campbell, and Bella DePaulo. We are cross-posting it on all of our blogs.]
“White privilege” and “male privilege” are familiar concepts in our cultural conversations. There is, however, another vast swath of unearned privileges that have gone largely unrecognized, even though they unfairly advantage about half of the adult population in the United States. We’re talking about marital privileges. People who marry enjoy social, cultural, economic, and political advantages that single people do not, simply because they are married.
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by Bella DePaulo | Aug 29, 2012 | ALL THINGS SINGLE, Matrimania, politics, Single men, Single parents, Single women
Speaking to the Republican National Convention last night, Ann Romney exclaimed that she loved women. (Well, not that way.) I don’t think she realizes, though, that not all women are mothers. Either that or she thinks that the only women who count are the mothers.
“It’s the moms who always have to work a little harder, to make everything right,” she said.
“It’s the moms of this nation,” she added, “single, married, widowed – who really hold this country together.”
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by Bella DePaulo | May 19, 2011 | ALL THINGS SINGLE, Books about singles, Friendship, historical perspectives, international perspectives, Matrimania, media, Money, politics, Single men, Single parents, Single women, singles rights and advocacy, singlism, What the research really shows (media myths), Workplace
“All Things Single” readers, I’m blogging to you first. My new book, Singlism: What It Is, Why It Matterse, and How to Stop It – written together with 28 other contributors – is now available. You can get it here at Amazon, though as I write this, Amazon has not yet added the description of the book. (They build book pages one or two sections at a time.) You can also get the paperback here, at the book’s own page, where the description does show up.
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by Bella DePaulo | Mar 13, 2011 | ALL THINGS SINGLE, books about deception, Books about singles, Friendship, LIARS AND THEIR LIES, politics, singles rights and advocacy, singlism
In my previous post here at All Things Single, I told you about my adventures in traditional book publishing. That’s the route I took with Singled Out. Now let me tell you about my experiences with nontraditional publishing. At the end, I’ll invite you to share your experiences for possible inclusion in two books that are in the works.
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by Bella DePaulo | Feb 13, 2011 | ALL THINGS SINGLE, politics, Singlism and matrimania, What the research really shows (media myths)
In a recent op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, David Boaz includes some needless stereotyping in an otherwise compelling argument. Here’s the letter I wrote to the editor, which you will only find here.
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