Life & Wisdom Quote by Suzanne Fields

Calling something "not very hip" is a neat little act of social ventriloquism: it borrows the language of trendiness to shame a feeling that stubbornly refuses to become obsolete. Suzanne Fields isn’t just lamenting loneliness; she’s taking aim at a cultural atmosphere in which certain kinds of female desire get treated as embarrassing anachronisms. The barb lands because it’s phrased like a fashion critique. Wanting a partner isn’t wrong, the line suggests, it’s uncool - which is exactly how modern status politics works: we don’t forbid needs, we rebrand them as cringe.

The loaded phrase "something so old-fashioned as men" does double duty. It’s funny, yes, because it literalizes a caricature of feminism as if heterosexual attraction were a quaint antique. But it’s also a provocation, nudging readers to notice how quickly discourse can slide from legitimate critiques of dependency into a more brittle posture: self-sufficiency as performance, desire as a lapse in ideology.

Fields’ intent is defensive and polemical. She’s carving out sympathy for single women who want conventional romance without being scolded by either side - not by traditionalists who blame them for being single, and not by cultural elites who treat coupledom as a retrograde aspiration. The subtext is that empathy has become politically curated: some struggles get airtime, others get dismissed as insufficiently enlightened.

It works because it compresses a whole culture-war argument into one sly inversion. Men, the supposed default center of the story, are recast as the taboo indulgence - and that twist exposes just how judgmental "hipness" can be.