But why are they doing it? Fraser says on the podcast:‘There are an increasing number of women who have decided, because they don’t have a man – or maybe some of them don’t want a man – that if they can’t find Mr Right, well, I’m going to embrace myself and marry myself and it’s going to be a really positive and self-affirming ritual. I’m going to invite all my family and friends and have my big day, man or no man’.
Also on this week’s podcast, is the downfall of Islamic State on the horizon? In 2014, the Iraqi city of Mosul was captured by ISIS, becoming the group’s centre of operations in the region. Two years on and the militants still hold the city – but only just. In his Spectator piece this week, Seth J Frantzman calls a recent spate of violence in Iraq the last spasms of the organisation’s grip on the territory.You can certainly argue that not many normal people would marry themselves. After all, it is the ultimate act of narcissism and we are talking about a handful of people. But where I think Ariane’s piece resonates so much is because it’s emblematic of a wider trend. And that trend is that women who get to a certain age where they might have been expected to have found a man, are not Bridget Jones-style crying as if there was a massive gap in their lives. Instead, these women are content, they’re happy, they’re fulfilled.
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