In her widely reviewed new book Spinster, Kate Bolick charts her attempts to live beyond the marriage plot. Why, Bolick asks, should marriage define a 21st-century woman?
Or a man, for that matter. Blueeyed South Carolinian Lindsey Graham, a far cry from the liberal, high-heeled Manhattanite smiling from Spinster’s cover, has seen his GOP presidential campaign derailed by bachelorhood. After joking to the Daily Mail Online that he would have a rotating first lady, he was forced into a round of apologetic interviews. One Vox headline read, with great pathos, “‘I don’t think I’m a defective person’: Lindsey Graham’s moving defense of being single.”
Shouldn’t we all feel proud to be single or married, perhaps closer to our family, as Graham claims, or to our female friends, as Bolick does?…
