"Carpenter bottles the palpable exasperation of young women's experiences with emotionally unprepared partners. And her feelings show up in the data. Women are more likely than men to say dating is harder than it was 10 years ago and they are twice as likely to cite physical and emotional risk as the reason why. The disproportionate emotional labor placed on women in relationships, paired with rising economic insecurity, does not compute."
"If Taylor Swift's pop ballads embodied millennial aspirations of love, then Sabrina Carpenter, for gen Z, instead captures the sense that healthy relationships are out of reach. In her song Nobody's Son, Carpenter sings: There's nobody's son / Not anyone left for me to believe in, a growing sentiment we've found in our research. Gen Z is undoubtedly diverging by gender, as 62% of single women report they're not looking to date at all, compared with 37% of men."
Sabrina Carpenter's Man's Best Friend reflects young women's growing withdrawal from dating and committed relationships. Young women report exasperation with emotionally unprepared partners and increased perceptions of dating difficulty; women are twice as likely as men to cite physical and emotional risk. Disproportionate emotional labor and rising economic insecurity make relationships seem unattainable for many Gen Z women. Sixty-two percent of single Gen Z women say they are not looking to date, compared with 37% of men, and dating women increasingly choose older men. These shifts affect political attitudes, fertility rates, and public understandings of loneliness and gendered expectations.
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