Thanks SJS, I’ve tried once before to introduce AZ to the wonderful world of quotation marks (you might not have liked “agunos” for all the very valid reasons you mentioned, but it wouldn’t have been as horrifying and distasteful).
Question: why aren’t we trying to scare the boys into delaying marriage by making them responsible for parnasa, and maturing? I know what Pirkei Avos says, but we don’t follow the rest of that mishna.
And back to the aguna business: this is just really wonderful for all the older single women out there, especially the ones who feel really good about themselves and their lives, and what they’re accomplishing, despite the very real void in their lives that they are quite aware of. Would we ever do this to childless couples, to call them something so horrific? Seems to me that I remember Penina doing that to Chana and it kinda backfired. (OK, I’m sure AZ would never do that to someone’s face, very imperfect analogy, still….)