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[Editor's note: A while back, Newsweek published a memorably hysterical cover story. The story predicted, in tones better reserved for a funeral, that a woman over 40 had a better chance of being blown up by a terrorist than getting married. Newsweek, not surprisingly, was flat-out wrong and later had to apologize. This November's cover story in The Atlanticby Kate Bolick raises a similarly alarming feminist trope: Why are so many women in their 30s unmarried? Is this a real problem? Bridget Crawford at Feminist Law Professors isn't entirely convinced.--Mona]
She writes:
It’s hard to know what to make of Bolick’s article. In an interview at The HairpinBolick asks, ‘Should I talk way up at the start about how mine is NOT a story saying there are no good men left? I’m terrified of people reading it that way — when in fact the reality, as I see it, is much more subtle and complex. Statistics are indeed showing that more men are struggling now than in the past, which is a result of vast economic forces, as well as social ones…,’ with a nod to the work of Christina Hoff Sommers.
What do you think? Do you agree with Bolick that there's a real problem here?
