: This article is horribly confused. The article may purport to be about the word, but time and again the inaccurate stereotype - that women who don't marry by a certain age are pathetic unstable repellent worthless figures of fun fit only for humiliating, contemptuous ridicule - is just assumed to be true, and the article written accordingly. This includes tone and selection.  For example, why is some media-created reality TV "cat lady" nonsense the first example of unmarried women? Why is "cat lady" mentioned more than once, if at all? 
 :  I propose we get rid of all this insulting cat lady crap (haven't any of you ever worked at a humane society? The vast majority of cat hoarders are men) and structure this article more like "bachelor", with only slight mention made to the inaccurate crackpot stereotype. (Look at how "bachelor" handles the pejorative meaning of "confirmed bachelor" - succinctly and without it taking over the article.) This article could benefit from the hundreds of academic studies of historical unmarried women living their lives as normal people instead of reality TV nonsense supporting the ridiculous assumption that women who don't marry are subhumans only worthy of contempt and ridicule. This is Wikipedia, not Fark.