After a long week at work and a wild night out on Friday, there’s nothing better than getting together with your girls on Sunday afternoons for bottomless brunch. You can get pleasantly buzzed on mimosas, eat some good food, catch up on the gossip, and bask in the last of the weekend. And while it seems like a pretty great way to pass the time and very restorative, one writer claims a love of bottomless brunch is keeping women single.
Wait, what? Jana Hocking’s logic is that bottomless brunch happens at lunch/during the daylight hours. Apparently, men don’t like going out for social engagements during the daytime — they prefer going out at night. So, if the majority of your outings happen when the sun is out, you’re missing out on a lot of eligible men.
According to Hocking, men only want to go out when they can watch football and ignore the women they’re out with. They don’t want to go get food during the day, because brunch has a “feminine vibe.” On the flip side, women aren’t really interested in going out to loud, dark, bars at night when we’d rather be at home in our PJs.
I feel like it’s pretty ridiculous to imply that bottomless brunch and all it entails is why single women haven’t found great relationships. After all, the idea that it’s too girly to want to eat an overpriced croque monsieur at 1 p.m. seems a bit reductive, to say the least. So does the idea that women can’t bear to leave the house once the sun sets because ew, gross bars! Obviously, all of these things are down to personal preference, but there are many places to meet people, and it’s not all at clubs and bars at night.
So, go ahead and enjoy your bottomless brunch. You might meet a hot guy at the restaurant, or you might meet one at any number of other places where men and women go in the world. It could be that you meet them on dating apps and then decide to go for brunch together as a first date. Try not to overthink it like Hocking clearly has.
