Snatch and Grab

These days being single is tres trendy. More and more we hear about the power of the single girl, their independence, their "fuck you world I don't need a big muscled shoulder to cry on" attitude. And while I am in total support of this sentiment and believe that there is at times nothing better than being a single girl, I must ask something.

Why is it that the most often heard advice from woman to woman is to "snatch up" the first nice, straight guy they meet. I know you've heard it before, countless times I'm sure. "That nice man on the bus who gave up his seat for you...quick snatch him up before someone else does! The dude who stopped to help pick up the 47 odd envelopes you just dropped all over the sidewalk at his feet... get him while you still can! I understand that dating is difficult and that nice, clean, intelligent men are becoming harder and harder to find. However, why are we told to snatch up the first nice guy we find? What if that nice guy only reads Marvel comics, or farts in bed, or refuses to try anything other than missionary? What if his mother still wipes his ass, or (insert some other deal breaker here)? Are we still to snatch him up and settle with his flaws simply because the idea of spending the next few months or yes even years as a single, solitary woman is too disparaging?

I get it, I really do, a good man is hard to find, but I am a firm believer that a good woman is harder to keep.

Impressing on woman the idea that we are too picky, our standards set too high, that we should simply snatch up the first man to smile at us in thanks for holding open the door is, to put it simply, ridiculous.