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Barbara Dafoe Whitehead is interviewed by Atlantic Monthly regarding her new book, Why There Are No Good Men Left. [link] Whitehead argues that the existing modes of courtship have failed for single professional women in their twenties and thirties, and proposes a new form of courtship. While I confess to not having read the book yet, the interview suggests that there are a number of logical holes in her argument (to be fair, Whitehead acknowledges them and calls the book a "journalistic sketch"). Among those holes are that she did not have a "control" group of professional women who are in the same age group, but who are married, and that she did not interview professional men of the same age group who are either single or married. It seems to me that without those perspectives, the analysis can't help but be incomplete: in order to solve the problem of these single women, it would seem logical that you need to figure out where the "good" men went. Did they get married? To whom? How did they and their wives get together in the first place, and what's the difference between the women who married them and the women who lament them?