"Avenger" wrote in message
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* men never objected to being called bachelors. It's the fagolas and
cat women (formerly know as "career women") who didn't like the word
spinster so to make it look good and to hide the real reason they did away
with both lol


R.I.P Bachelors and Spinsters


BACHELORS, the party is over.
Unmarried men will no longer be officially labelled with this
old-fashioned term after the Registrar General of England and Wales
decreed it belongs to a bygone era.

In a similar spirit, Spinsters are being consigned firmly to the
shelf.

From December, first-time brides and grooms completing their wedding
register form will no longer declare their previous unwedded status as
"bachelor" or "spinster".

As part of the Civil Partnership Act, these somewhat quaint terms
will make way for a new catch-all description for unmarried men and women:
"single".

The impetus for the change was to bring consistency to the
registration process between marriages and civil partnerships - so-called
"gay marriages".

But long before this official change, the terms had fallen out of
public favour. Dating back to 1362 - when it first came into the printed
language - "spinster" has latterly failed to conjure up the image of an
unmarried woman as a glamorous, independently-minded gal-about-town.

Cat ladies

Instead it came to be associated with a woman old before her time,
surrounded only by her cats.

Single men have been similarly unenthusiastic about being labelled a
bachelor in recent times, although the term took a more graceful fall down
the etymology glamour league.


BULL****! Being a bachelor conjures up the good life. Wine,women and
freedom. While spinster is that crazy old man fearing hag with the cats,
smelly house and no man in her life.



Initially coined as a word to depict a young knight, Chaucer is
credited with first using it to describe an unmarried man.

Latterly though "bachelor" became more closely association with
Britain's foremost Knight Bachelor, Sir Cliff Richard, who famously sang
"You'll be a bachelor boy until your dying day".

In the end though, Sir Cliff has outlived the term itself.

Naturally, bachelors and spinsters are not survived by anyone as they
of course remained unmarried.