NYT Opinion Urges 50%-Plus Singles to Reject Heteropessimism

1 articles · Updated · The New York Times · May 31

More than half of single men and women report pessimism about finding a happy partner, and the essay argues that despair has hardened into a broader anti-relationship mood.
The piece blames a flood of essays, podcasts and social-media content for pushing “heteropessimism” — the idea that heterosexual relationships are structurally broken or the opposite sex is the problem.
Asa Seresin’s 2019 term is cited as originally describing a largely performative complaint, but the author says the past year has turned it into a more serious cultural narrative.
Despite real political and cultural divides between men and women, the essay argues straight Americans still have unprecedented freedom to choose partners and should approach love with optimism instead.

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