During this last election, single women took a beating.
Not like a Chris Brown beating, but a verbal beatdown. And by the end of it, they were pretty much labeled whores for voting for Obama, as in this Fox News clip that explains why married women voted for Romney and single women didn’t.
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Bottom line of the video: Married women care about family, the economy, and traditional values; single women care about themselves.
For some reason, this video came to mind recently while I was at bakery with another single friend. We were in line for pastries and coffee at a jam-packed Panera Bread-esque establishment on a Saturday afternoon, a time in the day when any available seat is a rarity, like finding an actual CD at a Best Buy these days.
When a couple got up to leave, we put our coats down on their table to lay our claim, before returning to the line to order. When we came back, a woman—along with her baby, husband, and male friend—had taken our table.
“Is this yours?” the woman said to me, referring to my coat and hat, discarded like the prophylactics she had abandoned more than nine months prior. “I moved it. We needed the tables. I hope that’s OK.”
I looked at her with polite irritation. I hope that’s OK? It had to be OK. They had pretty much set up shop already.
I picked up my coat, which was wedged under the baby’s carrier. At the time, this image struck me as God’s little joke concerning my biological clock. Luckily, my friend and I found another table.
When we sat down, we both discussed that the woman could have at least asked us to use the table before tossing our clothing items around like she was at a Macy’s dressing room.
But more than that, I was upset that single women still get such a bad rap, when in this situation, two single women would have never bucked traditional values and kicked people out of their table. In this case, the mother—the presumably married woman—was the one to be thinking of herself.
It just goes to show you can’t judge a bitch by its cover.
This woman was rude and arrogant. She probably convinced her husband that she had THE worst labor in the history of childbirth and no one suffered like her so everything she needs now she should get. I have seen these women in action. You should have decked her.
You should’ve told her off. Man, what a bitch she was. You should have decked her, Megan!
I contemplated it!