I love vintage ads. They certainly didn’t beat around the bush back then. They told you, in very frank and explicit terms, why you needed to buy this product — you were too fat, you were too ugly, you were single! In these times of subliminal messaging, where the misogyny behind an ad is hidden in subtext and […]
Posts Tagged ‘single life’
Love the One You’re With
August 19th, 2009
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A friend recently sent me an article called “Why I’m Alone”. It is a response by Huffington Post columnist Lea Lane to the question she is often asked in the years following the death of her husband: Why is she still alone? Why doesn’t she date much? While I’ve never loved and lost like Ms. Lane, I can […]
Vanity, thy profile name is HandsomeStrongM
April 25th, 2009
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Over brunch with some girlfriends today, the conversation turned to online dating, as it so frequently does when you get a bunch of single girls together. We all have profiles on a certain dating site and shared our dating horror stories. It reminded me of a recent exchange I had with someone on the site. It’s so audaciously head-shaking […]
