singlism

But now, some five or six years after I first started using the term singlism in my book, Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After, and in my early writings with Wendy Morris, I have much more than a litany of anecdotes and complaints to go on.

Bella DePaulo: Taking on Singlism: 28 Writers Help Me Display and Slay the Beast Bella DePaulo 2011

I think it is an example of a problem I call singlism - the stereotyping, stigmatizing, and discrimination that is directed at people who are single.

Bella DePaulo: A Wife Is Not a "Scoot Out of Jail Free" Card 2008

"DePaulo says that 'singlism' -- a term she coined and for which we are prepared to forgive her -- is not just aimed at unmarried women."

Bella DePaulo: Taking on Singlism: 28 Writers Help Me Display and Slay the Beast Bella DePaulo 2011

Ann's recent blogginheads was with a woman who wrote about the genocidal plague ravaging the landscape which she calls "singlism".

Paris Hilton does a pro-McCain ad! Ann Althouse 2008

There are media critiques, op-ed essays, and personal stories of standing up to singlism and dealing with internalized singlism.

Bella DePaulo: Taking on Singlism: 28 Writers Help Me Display and Slay the Beast Bella DePaulo 2011

This is what the New York Times uses to perpetuate its singlism.

Bella DePaulo: What Every New Census Report Shows: More Americans Are Single. But Why? Bella DePaulo 2010

Now in my new book, Singlism: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Stop It, 28 others have joined me in showing where singlism lurks and how to deal with it.

Bella DePaulo: Taking on Singlism: 28 Writers Help Me Display and Slay the Beast Bella DePaulo 2011

I named the bias of singlism to make it more recognizable, in hopes that every time the word was uttered or read, a puff of old-fashioned consciousness-raising would waft through the air.

Bella DePaulo: Taking on Singlism: 28 Writers Help Me Display and Slay the Beast Bella DePaulo 2011

Among the other perspectives on singlism represented in the book are the personal, political, historical, religious, legal, clinical, economic, and sociological.

Bella DePaulo: Taking on Singlism: 28 Writers Help Me Display and Slay the Beast Bella DePaulo 2011

Some have mentioned that Rendell did not realize there was a live microphone beside him when he committed his act of singlism.

Blogtalk: Rendell on Napolitano’s ‘No Life’ - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008