Thought for Food

Nov 11, 2009

That peculiar species, the New York Woman

Only seventeen per cent of New York women rate themselves “highly satisfied” with their sex lives, compared with twenty per cent nationally and twenty-five per cent globally. On the other hand, New York women have more friends than anyone else on the planet: the average New Yorker would invite at least sixty-five friends to her wedding, compared with a national average of fifty-nine. Called upon to explain this phenomenon, [Michael Silverstein, author of Women Want More: How to Capture Your Share of the World’s Largest, Fastest-Growing Market] remembered a recent visit to a New York Bikram-yoga studio. “I have been to Bikram yoga all over the country, and this was the friendliest, most conversational, most open yoga class I have ever been to—like, in a different category,” he said. “I have been there twice, and the instructor knows me by name. I have been to the studio in Chicago forty times, and the instructor doesn’t know me.”

With regards to the second part of the above paragraph, I agree wholeheartedly. I was lucky enough to arrive in this city with a posse of my college besties and it’s been up, up, UP from there. And given the popularity of my current mate, I think we’d have to have multiple weddings across at least three continents to accommodate everyone we’d like to celebrate with.

As for the first part, what a pity! No wonder they’re so obsessed with shoes.

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