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Mankeeping: why single women are giving up dating
As the male social circle continues to shrink, their partners have to take on much more emotional labour – and many are opting to spend their lives alone instead
Mon 16 Jun 2025 09.20 EDT
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Name: Mankeeping.
Age: Semantically, about a year old.
Appearance: Needy and exhausting.
Oh God, a new term with the word “man” as a prefix. These are always tedious. Go and cry about it in your man cave, you manspreading mansplainer.
See? It’s a cheap and lazy rhetorical device. Yes, but mankeeping is a real thing: men don’t mankeep; women mankeep.
How so? Increasingly, the dynamic in a heterosexual relationship seems to be that a woman is tasked with coaching her partner through his problems.
I don’t understand. A whole generation of men don’t feel comfortable opening up to their male friends, which means some of them dump their worries on their female partner. It’s an extension of emotional labour – remembering birthdays, organising social calendars – but effectively it requires the partner to act as an unpaid therapist.
How do these people get a job? This entire article is bs, men dont trauma dump on women, if anything they do the opposite. Women are the ones who constantly feel the need to use their partner and friends as therapists.
Mankeeping: why single women are giving up dating
As the male social circle continues to shrink, their partners have to take on much more emotional labour – and many are opting to spend their lives alone instead
Mon 16 Jun 2025 09.20 EDT
Share
Name: Mankeeping.
Age: Semantically, about a year old.
Appearance: Needy and exhausting.
Oh God, a new term with the word “man” as a prefix. These are always tedious. Go and cry about it in your man cave, you manspreading mansplainer.
See? It’s a cheap and lazy rhetorical device. Yes, but mankeeping is a real thing: men don’t mankeep; women mankeep.
How so? Increasingly, the dynamic in a heterosexual relationship seems to be that a woman is tasked with coaching her partner through his problems.
I don’t understand. A whole generation of men don’t feel comfortable opening up to their male friends, which means some of them dump their worries on their female partner. It’s an extension of emotional labour – remembering birthdays, organising social calendars – but effectively it requires the partner to act as an unpaid therapist.
How do these people get a job? This entire article is bs, men dont trauma dump on women, if anything they do the opposite. Women are the ones who constantly feel the need to use their partner and friends as therapists.
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