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I hate the way the media portrays older women who are single. I mean even women in their mid 20's are part of the rapid slope into spinster territory now. They seem to get a huge kick out of showing us as crazy, desperate, wobbly old bats. Has it ever occurred to the media that perhaps the reason women of this age find it so difficult to find a man is because they are all traumatised by the image of us that you have created? Shocker.
And for that I can hardly blame men, as I'm pretty damn traumatised by it myself. According to the media if I'm not married in the next 8 years then I'm doomed to be a forever alone fat, alco-choco-smoke-aholic who cries myself to sleep every night and eventually dies alone in my flat while my body is eaten by my hundreds of cats. And no-one ever notices I am gone.
Let's face it, the most well known single 30 something characters in media, off the top of my head at least, are Bridget Jones, Sandra Bullock as either the crazy control freak in 2 Weeks Notice or as the violent, manly spinster in Miss Congeniality, or worst of all the women from Sex in the City. Oh my, how they represent the best in us.
The others tend to be ridiculous chick-flicks or rom-coms, whatever you like to call them, that begin with a highly successful, beautiful woman with great friends and a generally awesome life. Then they start showing how she's "not really happy because she doesn't have a man" and by the end she falls in love with some idiot who gets her pregnant and turns her into a stay at home mum. I call bullshit! That might be how most of us eventually end up, but what's wrong with showing some role models of women who are on their own who are successful and perfectly happy waiting for love to come along whenever it does. Instead you show us bloody well Bridget Jones, whose life is what most of us are terrified will happen to us. Thanks Renee Zellweger for bringing our worst fears to life in a movie that we will cry to every Christmas that we are single.
Have people never wondered if perhaps it's not the women that are the problem? I mean, have you looked at men of this age? Most of them are either completely childish and hideously annoying, or worse having finally discovered that they have a penis are now on a frantic mission to stick it in as many things as possible. I know this isn't true for all men of this age, but almost all of the men who do not fall into these categories fall into the "already claimed" categories. And even so I'm told that most of these taken men who are gorgeous, polite, funny and utterly charming did not start off this way. The attached women actually had to help them to become proper functioning adults and good partners! You've got to be kidding! If that's the case I might actually prefer the cats as I don't think I could spend the required amount of time with one of those irritating children that can't work out which clothes to wash together and finds it hilarious to throw his dirty underwear at you until you agree to help them. Nor could I cope with trying to train the other men not to stick their doodah in anything with a pulse, I'd just want to give them a thorough wash and even then I'm not sure I'd ever feel like they were clean enough to touch me.
Perhaps I'm more sensitive to it now that I am "waiting until marriage" and struggling to find men with the maturity to hear that and not react like I just bombed their family. What do you think, do we need better role models for single women?
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