Why Are People on Twitter Saying They Won’t Get Married?

It seems to me that the unemployment crisis in the country must be worse than we thought. Why else would a hashtag like #हम_विवाह_नही_करेंगे (I/we will not get married) be trending? Financial security is a prerequisite to settling down in matrimony; so having no job is obviously a deterrent for those seeking wedded bliss. Plus, it seems there are many who have so much free time on their hands that they create and trend hashtags such as these.

I/we will not get married because we are unemployed says this tweet.

For some, the chances of marriage are low to none.

This character from the popular series Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah is supposed to be the eternal bachelor.

The man known as Bhai --- Salman Khan

This is India after all.

Married people aren't concerned with this trending hashtag.

Parents with offspring of a certain age seem to want only this one thing.

Their son/daughter may barely have reached a marriageable age, but parents always seem to be in a hurry to get them married off.

Services that depend upon people wanting to get married may have wondered about this hashtag.

Because they were looking forward to their friend(s) getting married.

For some married couples this is a thing of the past; merely something they said once upon a time.

….I don’t believe you.

If not marriage then what?

Didn’t like the trend.

The people trending this hashtag are those without any work, thought the tweeple.

MGTOW (or men going their own way) are those disgruntled men with misogynistic views. 

The MGTOW is an anti-feminist who feels victimised by the movement that seeks equality of the genders.

There are those poor misguided souls who feel aggrieved about laws for protection of women. They feel that laws to bring women on an equal footing with men in a society that has been deeply patriarchal for centuries are somehow ‘biased’.

Unfortunately, this point of view is deeply ignorant about entrenched male privilege and continuing gender inequality. Online misogynist groups such as Red Pill and others typically consist of some very deluded and maladjusted men.

Women, who stand to lose the most by getting married – their home, family, independence and even their name and identity – feel they’ve had a lucky escape.

Many saw the #हम_विवाह_नही_करेंगे  hashtag and felt that it would make zero difference – after all its just another hashtag; just another day on Twitter.