I'm trying to find out how many bachelors/spinsters are here in MyLot...
By danyphilip
@danyphilip (89)
India
December 25, 2006 11:09am CST
Are you a bachelor or a spinster?...living alone ?or living with a group of friend???or is family involved?
Do comment...
2 responses
@working4theweekend (2403)
• United States
25 Dec 06
Why is it a guy w/o a girlfriend is a bachelor, but a woman w/o a boyfriend is a spinster??? That seems wrong to me - shouldn't she be a bachelorette? Spinster sounds like you are destined to never have love in your life ever again!!!!!
@danyphilip (89)
• India
25 Dec 06
perhaps...you are right...i should've worded more accurately...but basically both the same....doesn't it?
@working4theweekend (2403)
• United States
25 Dec 06
Not really, "bachelor" and "spinster" are not the same thing.
See from dictionary.com:
BACHELOR:
bach·e·lor
–noun 1. an unmarried man.
2. a person who has been awarded a bachelor's degree.
3. a fur seal, esp. a young male, kept from the breeding grounds by the older males.
4. Also called bachelor-at-arms. a young knight who followed the banner of another.
5. Also called household knight. a landless knight.
SPINSTER:
spin·ster
–noun 1. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
2. Chiefly Law. a woman who has never married.
3. a woman whose occupation is spinning.
Basically, a spinster is like a negative term, it's like a woman who has never married, and probably never will, whereas a bachelor is just available and eligible for marrying.
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@danyphilip (89)
• India
25 Dec 06
well...u got me stand mistaken...i will take a note of the info you just gave in the future....ok?good enough response?
@earning (141)
• United Kingdom
6 Feb 07
I am a spinster.
I live alone. I have no kids. I have never lived with a guy even.
It wasn't meant to be that way. I just thought I'd stumble across somebody some time. And that old line "it always happens when you are not looking", so I wasn't really looking.
Then I woke up old and realised all the ones I fancied were about 20 years younger than me - and all those my age were already married/divorced/with kids and really set in their ways.
Statistically I heard that if a woman has married/divorced by age 35, she is most likely to re-marry. But if a woman has reached 35 without every marrying then she is most unlikely to ever marry.
So, accepting offers from: nice, tall, attractive, slim, intelligent young men in the UK
:)
