MU researcher to single women: ‘How you doin’?’

Single women blush and respond: “Not so married, thanks.”

In a new study, the University of Missouri-Columbia’s Lawrence Ganong and Texas Tech University’s Elizabeth A. Sharp report that single women feel lousy about being single.

Who told them that? The 32 “middle-class, never-married” women they interviewed, people they say felt “heightened visibility in situations such as bouquet tosses at weddings.” The same subjects, however, also felt invisible sometimes, “when others made assumptions that they were married and had children or when

they had to justify their singlehood.”

Whose fault is that? The media’s.