Gender Acceptance Of Couples And Singles

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es without saying, but why? What is the need to with someone? Yet everyone feels this pull; hetero as well as homosexuals. Out society is based heavily on family and it begins to be ground into our heads at a very young age, that one day, you too will have a family. It’s what everyone is “looking” for. For some people this becomes an obsession. The search for that special someone is much more than a search, it is their identity and it consumes them.
Yet some people can’t find that someone. Their need to be with someone isn’t met and it becomes clear that for some reason, they just aren’t complete until they do. Society even goes as far as make them look funny or strange in the eyes of others for not having found someone. The symbol of the “old librarian” is popular in television and fictional works in expressing the notion of a woman who never married. She wasted away her beauty in the stacks of books, and now, no one wants her. The same can be said for some other unique rolls like teachers in books and film. But society goes out of there way to make it apparent that not being with someone is wrong. Yet no one tells you this is wrong. It just is. It’s what is expected of you and so it becomes a taboo in American society to remain single. You become an outcast.

What’s wrong with Brandon?
A friend of mine has been single for quite sometime, he makes efforts at finding his mate, but hasn’t. Because of this questions have arisen to what is wrong with Brandon? Why can’t he find someone? Why can’t he get a girl? These questions seem to lead to a familiar incidence of singles putting undo pressure on themselves to find that someone in order to be “normal”. This sense to be “normal” as an individual is a concern that causes everyone to watch everyone else to get cues as to what behavior or emotions are “normal” or “right”. (McCary, pg 9) No one ever tells you that you must find a partner, but ...