Singledom: The Normal (less estrogen) Version

(This is in response to the article posted here: http://thoughtcatalog.com/2011/singledom-its-normal-so-relax/)

I read the article above and I was a hodgepodge of emotions - I didn't know what to think. I thought being single was very clear and defined - either you are extremely depressed that you are single and yearn for someone else or you are elated that you are single and you can't wait to go out and get your mack daddy on.

I once read an issue of Cosmo. I was shocked - SHOCKED - at the garbage that goes into that magazine. Some of the material in there makes Paris Hilton and Snooki look like Nobel Prize candidates. It's even more shocking that so many women buy that crap and swear to it like it's their Bible. The article above states that when men are single, "we brush it off as playing the field." You're damn right, we're playing the field. But tell me, girls don't do that? The so-called noble search for Mr. Right is playing the field, whether you want to admit it or not.

Unlike girls and their so called girls' night, a "guy’s night" is just what it sounds like - a several 30 packs of cheap beer, illegal recreational drugs, a game on TV, video games, and other shenanigans. Never have I ever gone to a guy’s night and dressed up in an Armani shirt and tie hoping that the night eventually lands me in the backseat of my car with some girl. I usually go into these nights with a white tee (now famous for its stains) and jeans and looking to chillax. When did being single become such a burden? Usually, it is being in a relationship which causes problems and strain – I’ve never heard a single guy complaining about how hard life is…I guess girls just have it harder (total sarcasm – I have never had anyone pay for my drink at a bar….or let me into a club for free despite my dashingly handsome looks).

Something single guys share with single girls is the apparent disgust with their friends being single. Instead of guys thinking their friends are condescending or annoying or wondering why their friends deserve such hotter girls than they do, they just wonder about how whipped someone can become within a very time frame. There are very strong undertones of sexism in this response, but I don’t care. If you can extrapolate from what I’ve said in the last several paragraphs, this is what I’m saying – 1. Being single is awesome. 2. Don’t feel sorry for yourself because your friends are not single and you are – instead embrace it. 3. GET PAID, GET LAID.