I have to disagree re: reboots/reimaginings with all female casts.

“ And to the reporter who thinks that “all the really good girls that you would want to marry are taken”—well, what a joke.”

“I can’t speak for the gay men, but for the straight guys... if you really want to find a nice girl and settle down, all you have to do is make the slightest bit of effort. As soon as you decide to take that plunge, you will have no problem moving forward. So, I don’t really have any sympathy.”

I can’t believe how much people are projecting onto these guys. you take a few quotes and blanket that onto everyone.

I’m no reading that at all though. It seems that several of these guys were just enjoying hookups and dating, or had a ton of their time in their careers.

How many times do we read stories by women that are EXACTLY the same as these guys? I mean holy crap, I swear I’ve read stories from women who talk about hookups the same way the French guy did, but suddenly someone who is desiring a hookup isn’t seeing someone as a person?

Woah, stop your projecting. Who said he wasn’t seeing them as human beings? So you have never heard of hooking up? Because women do that too and all the time and sometimes we get angry that people hate us for that. We call it “slut shaming.”

Thank you! I can’t believe the lack of empathy I am reading on this site. How many times have we read these EXACT same stories, from women, and felt for them?

Ok, you are projecting SO MUCH and its really sad. These guys are no different than the tons of women whose stories make it to Jezebel about middle age and careers and not having time for relationships. But you are going to cherry pick a few people just so, what, you can shame them for being exactly where so many…

So you take that one guys thing about younger women and apply it to everyone?

What about women who whine about this? How many times on this very website have we had stories about women who reached middle age and didn’t put enough time into relationships and now they are stuck and scared and alone?

Why, exactly, don’t you feel any empathy for them? Because they, like a lot of women, had to work hard at careers and life and reached middle age having lost something?

Thank you for writing something smart and empathetic. I’m shocked by all the hate heeped on this article because one dude wrote something shitty, and how so many people have made it all about them.

Not really? Are we really going to make this all about US? Yes, one dude said something shitty, but there are a lot of people out there, JUST LIKE US! who are feeling alone and scared in middle age and our result is to make this about us and hate on them?

I can’t stand the reaction to the piece. I mean, here we have a bunch of people who have hit a wall in life, who are feeling alone and scared, and our immediate reaction is to heap scorn on them? And this: