Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/1195kb7/us_most_young_men_are_single_most_young_women_are/

Halfway down the thread someone mentions that this article is based on a self-reported pew research poll and not any kind of more in-depth study.

Also whoever wrote the article either didn’t understand the actual poll or just outright lied about what the data showed lmao

comment on this:

If you drill down into the actual source of the data, which is a Pew research poll, you find a specific definition of "single". It is not actually "are you [not] dating someone".

In these stats, "single" refers to people who "are not married, living with a partner or in a committed relationship".

The important part here: a committed relationship. This is self-reported by the people being polled.

If two people are in a relationship, one may answer "yes" to this and the other may answer "no", depending on whether they see it as a "committed" relationship.

Thus, there is an interesting explanation for at least part of the data - perhaps young men don't consider themselves "committed" as often.

Combined with the age distribution phenomenon, this likely covers pretty much all of the discrepancy in the stats.

Original Pew Poll: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2023/02/08/for-valentines-day-5-facts-about-single-americans/ft_2023-02-08_facts-single-americans_01/

Fashy bros love to avoid putting a label on things and then blame women for not being in a relationship lol

  • HornyOnMain
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    2 years ago

    Even taking the claim at face value all it would mean is that loads of lesbians are getting into committed relationships with each other rather than with guys

    • Ligma_Male [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      nah it could also mean young women are "dating" men who are outside whatever "young" means here, which is somewhat understandable because of capitalism and having money to do fun things besides sit at home being broke,

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Not only lesbians. I'm technically bi, but dating men is a grating, tedious game of spot the red flag, it's almost impossible to find one i'd want to be in a relationship with, and random hookups with men i can't screen beforehand are downright dangerous for me as a trans woman due to the risk of guys getting a case of trans panic and having a violent outburst after they fuck me. So even though i'm sexually attracted to men and have slept with men in the past, i only date women and enbies because as much fun as some guys can be, finding these diamonds in the rough isn't worth the hassle to me when i can just date people who aren't men.

      And yes, i'm aware this makes me a kind of "political lesbian" like some proto-terf from the 1970s, the irony isn't lost on me.

    • BringMeExtra [xe/xem,fae/faer]
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      2 years ago

      :frothingfash: “I DON’T BELIEVE IN LESBIANS, I ONLY BELIEVE IN WOMBSSSSSZZSSSSSSSZ”

    • Enver_McTim [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      That probably makes a small difference, not huge tho, there aren't that much more queer women than men and most bi women are in hetero relationships (because there's a larger dating pool of straight/bi men than queer women). Nothing that would explain a 29% difference.

      It's probably a combination of margin of error and a lot of women in their mid/late 20's dating men in their 30's rather than their own age bracket

      If you look at singleness for men and women of all ages there's only a 4% difference, which is consistent with there being more women than men and slightly more WLW than MLM relationships

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Also a very large portion of the 18-29 year old dudes that I know are serial cheaters and wouldn't consider themselves "in a committed relationship" even if they had multiple children with the woman they're currently dating.