The relationship between the sexes and our epidemic of loneliness are two topics we keep coming back to at The Free Press. The event, moderated by yours truly, will pit musician and producer Grimes and writer Sarah Haider against Red Scare podcast co-host Anna Khachiyan and author Louise Perry. Get your tickets here. Meanwhile, over the coming weeks, we are bringing you a few essays that explore these ideas.
When my late, adoptive grandparents met back in the s, after about two weeks, my year-old grandfather proposed to my year-old grandmother. She replied that she had three requirements for him: stop smoking, stop drinking, and stop gambling.
My grandfather agreed, immediately dropping all three habits, and never returning to them. They were married for more than sixty years and raised four children. Earlier this year, the American Perspectives Survey collected data from a representative sample of more than 5, U. Some of the findings are predictable. Other results are surprising. Few of them would make sense to my grandmother, a devoutly religious homemaker.
Sixty-five percent of Democrats and 62 percent of Republicans say they would be less likely to date someone of the opposing political party.
The survey also found that being a feminist is more of a liability than a benefit. Being a male or female feminist, in other words, is unlikely to score you a date. Relationships used to begin with courtship: meeting families, spending lots of time together—including in public—marriage, and then, finally, sex. They get stuck in a holding pattern of casual sex, which often benefits guys the most.
