Marriage is a fad?
Sandra Tsing Loh (who’s recently divorced) is arguing in The Atlantic that marriage is passe for everyone – not just Republican Governors.
Like Jonah Lehrer, whose blog I picked this story up on, I’m too recently married to comment on this objectively. He however notes that Loh quotes Helen Fisher, the anthropologist paid by Match.com to provide a “scientific” basis for Chemisty.com, their premium dating site. Lehrer points out:
“While Fisher has done some interesting work on romantic attachment in the past, it’s worth pointing out that there’s exactly zero evidence that people have “dominant” or “operative” neurotransmitter system, or that being exposed to oxytocin in the womb makes us touchy-feely.”
In layman’s terms Fisher’s theories , which divide people into four broad types, are “neurobabble”. So don’t worry, whatever NPR commentators try to tell you, marriage hasn’t been made obsolete by science just yet.
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