Do females feel that it's improper to be single?

All females do not agree or feel the same about anything.

This female doesn’t. And do you mean unacceptable rather than improper?

Oh no not at all , I love being single

+ up good question

I don’t. I could care less what people think of me being single either.

I do know what you mean. As a female, I often have my single, male friends asking me to set them up with my friends which is maddening because most of my friends are male and the few females I am good friends with are in relationships.

I’ve had a lot of conversations that went kinda like, “Yeah, um, she’s not single. Nope, she’s not either.”

I think that it’s more that it’s a culture that women have learned. Women are always the matchmakers in cultures, some of which emphasize matchmaking quite a lot, so by the time many women are in their twenties and thirties, it just comes as instinctual and they don’t think about it. Plus, while thinking you have to have a partner is an issue, getting set up by a mutual friend is a great way to meet more people, same as all the other ways of meeting new people.

Course, the only person who’s ever offered to set me up with a friend has been male.

I rarely try to hook people up. The only exception (and this has happened less that 3 times in my life) is when I know two people very well and know that they would like one another.

I thought statistically men are more likely to get remarried than woman? I think young men give the impression thy are good being single and just hooking up here and there, and don’t want to think about only having sex with th same woman for the rest of their lives, aaannnddd want to get their careers more stable before really considering a serious relationship. While older men who have been married like the companionship and the role the wife has within the relationship. Most older men do not have many friends they are regularly in touch with or can tell everything too, and their wife is trully their best friend. When this breaks down it is very difficult for the man with little other emotional support.

I try to match up men as much as I do woman. It just has to do with if I come across someone who seems to have qualities that match with one of my friends. I should say I almost never actually try to set up people.

In terms of hooking up (not dating, but one night stand or fling) I’ve found both sexes to be equally forthcoming in terms of saying “your friend is hot, introduce me”.

I think it all depends on the situation. If you had a friend who recently got dumped and is down in the dumps than her gal pals may try to set her up. And I think since women are more in tune with their feelings they also will try to set up guys who they feel may be also searching for someone special who may be down in the dumps.
I know, if I know of a guy or girl who I think is pretty special and I feel they may get along well with someone else who is special, than why shouldn’t I introduce them and let them figure it out from there.
Its not that women then people should never be single. If they are quite happy being single than great. But if they are a friend and seem lonely, than why shouldn’t one try to help if you can.
As it is almost everyone I know is already hooked up so I haven’t been in the match making business for quite some time. And some people I know are great but I don’t introduce them because I feel they are such polar opposites that they would not get along.
My point is I do not think people see it as some taboo to be single. Of course there is the occassional person who may want to hook up a single friend of the same sex because they feel having this single great person around their partner may not be healthy for their own relationship. Then that has more to do about jealousy and insecurity issues.
Which, I’ve seen guys try to hook up their best pals when they think their pal is getting to friendly with their girl.

I’ve only ever been set up once in my life, many years ago. Dude was well old enough to be my father. It wasn’t a good date.

::gasp!:: Maybe I’m actually loathesome and no one’s said anything for all these years? :O ~

Women are as different from one another as men are.

I think women generally are more likely to want to be in a relationship than to want to remain single. Just my experience with women I’ve known.

Personally, I’ve only been on one date where I was “set up” with someone. The date itself went well, we hung out again the next day, and then it just fizzled. I think it might have been because he realized that I don’t smoke pot. Oh well.

I’ve never set anyone up, either, nor have I been asked to.

@Seelix People that think that if you don’t smoke pot (or drink, or smoke cigs) there’s nothing you can do together really bum me out.

I don’t think improper is the right word here. I find that girls love talking about boys, their relationships and so on. I find more often than not, that my friends who are in relationships want to set their single friends (usually me, haha) up with people that they know. My single friends however, never try to set anyone up. Perhaps it’s that women who are in new, exciting and happy relationships want their friends to experience the same things that they are? With recently single friends, it could be an attempt to “cheer them up”, although the effectiveness of setting them up is debatable! However, a lot of women are very happy being single and don’t feel that they’re acting improperly :)

Improperly was what sounded best (to me), but probably not the right word. I’m not sure how to explain it, but in my experiences I’ve always noticed that females are usually the matchmakers and seem like they can’t have any single friends if they, themselves, are not single.