Wow f**k! Read this.

Long time readers know I occasionally put in my two cents worth about the relationship scene in America today.

I touched on the subject in Have Some Free Relationship Advice and A Bad Time for Lovers.

I think they were quite well-received, so trust me – read this.

Tracy McMillan is a successful TV writer (Mad Men, The United States of Tara – not too shabby!) and a three-times married single mother of a 13-year-old son.

Sometimes desperation and/or resignation makes one brutally honest with oneself. McMillan writes about Why You’re Not Married and my guess is she’s going to catch hell from a lot of women, who on some level know she’s right.

They’ll never forgive her for that.

For a small number of American women, this might be the slap that brings the Sudden Zen enlightenment. (I’m guessing McMillan experienced the Gradual Zen enlightenment.)

McMillan starts from the premise, you want to get married. So why aren’t you?

She lists six reasons, and goes into greater but not tedious depth.

1) You’re a bitch.

2) You’re shallow.

3) You’re a slut.

4) You’re a liar.

5) You’re selfish.

6) You’re not good enough.

There is however, light at the end of the tunnel. She does have some good news and advice on how women can fix their predicament.

One should point out however, that she’s still a forty-something three-time loser and author of, I Love You and I’m Leaving You Anyway: A Memoir.

A look at the book blurbs is enough to scare any man.

And a kind of sad endnote. I can’t find it now, but the other day I was looking at a similar article by a never-married thirty-something writer who admitted she’d kind of like to be married too. She mentioned she’d had a few long-term boyfriends who never got into committment mode.

This was kind of wistfully sad – but somebody ought to tell her that she isn’t doing herself any favors by listing under “orientation” in her online profile, “slutty.”

Trust me on this one too.

UPDATE: OK, this did piss off some women. Go see Jessica Ravitz’s Why I’m Not Married (and it’s not because I’m an angry slut.)

Oh. My. God. I have no reason to believe Ms Ravitz is a slut, but oy vey is she angry!

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