She was asking for it
February 7, 2010 – 2:18 pmAfter reading a recent New York Times article on the woes of (straight) women on college campuses seeking to date but coming up against a man shortage, I couldn’t help but be thankful that I attended a single-sex undergrad institution. (I should also note that said institution has since gone co-ed, which is why they will never receive a single fucking dime from me as an alum.)
What really made me roll my eyes was this lovely sentence:
“Thanks to simple laws of supply and demand, it is often the women who must assert themselves romantically or be left alone on Valentine’s Day, staring down a George Clooney movie over a half-empty pizza box.”
Now, I have definitely have issues with the cult of Valentine’s Day, or as I call it, “Cheap Chocolate Eve,” but for the NYT to make it seem that if you don’t have a date on that day, the only alternative is to stay home and sulk is quite frankly, bullshit.


