The Truth About Women Who Say They Don’t Need A Man

Men, particularly right wing men, have long warned of the spinster cat lady who never wed or bore children—how lonely and depressed she was destined to be.

And how altruistic are their warnings of women’s childless, lonely despair? Well, for many women, those warnings rang hollow for what was transparently a desperate attempt to pressure women into settling down prematurely as a mating strategy. “Don’t wait too long, or you’ll run out of eggs! You’ll be too old to raise your kids properly or you won’t find a man.” What most women hear when a curiously forever single young man utters these warnings is the male equivalent of “pick me, choose me, love me.”