Category Archives: Singles By Choice

Of dragons and gremlins

Posted on March 21, 2011 by

My dragons are having a field day! Who would care about this change anyways? They laugh! You are wasting your time! They scream! They try to blow fire but it’s not working anymore. I demoted them. They are gremlins now. … Continue reading →

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Shame Double Whammy

Posted on March 13, 2011 by

I’ve been looking into shame – both academically and personally. I got interested in shame because of a class session on the ethics of care in an otherwise uninspiring virtue ethics seminar. Ethics of care is based on empathy – … Continue reading →

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

Posted on February 14, 2011 by

I have decided to fully embrace Valentine’s Day this year, not as the couplemanic card-holiday it has become but rather as the holiday it was meant to be: To celebrate all of our relationships in our lives and to let … Continue reading →

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Single and Searching?

Posted on January 10, 2011 by

An ad fluttered into my email box with the headline “Single and Searching: A Drama Therapy Group for Women.” I was going to let it slide as run-of-the-mill couplemania when something else caught my eye. It is using the “theatre … Continue reading →

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Singlism and Sexism Interact

Posted on October 25, 2010 by

Reading an article on the underlying framework that can help evaluate affirmative action, I realized why single women are viewed so much more negatively than single men. It’s the interaction of sexism and singlism. Wasserstrom wrote in 1977 describing the … Continue reading →

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Facebook Relationships

Posted on October 15, 2010 by

I’ve been trying to figure out how to make the Facebook relationship status meaningful for me. It doesn’t let me write in what I want (single by choice), so I thought that maybe I could expand the meaning of relationship … Continue reading →

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