This guy needs to have his teeth kicked in for writing such a load of smug, condescending, self-satisfied crap and passing it onto the public. I have many married friends. Some of them are even happy, and bless 'em for it. But then I also know people who enjoy Nickleback. Maybe that's the right choice for them, but it's not for everyone. At the end, though, Steinberg's characterization of single people as cowardly, sad, disconnected and pathetic is as much of a fallacy as the single-person stereotype of married folk as zombie-like beings compelled to transform all around into facsimiles of themselves (a fallacy that Steinberg embraces with his contention that married people are "trying to help our single friends salvage what's left of their lives before the years pass, irretrievable.")
One has to wonder what would prompt such a outburst at people who's greatest crime against civilization is singledom. Steinberg is so quick to paint a profoundly rosy picture of matrimony and married people as some higher form of being (as though marriage were some transcendent act that elevates you to a high plane of existence) that one can't help but wonder if he's really lashing out purely out of jealousy.
I'd also like to hear what his wife has to say.
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