To clarify, my major problem with Prudie's advice was that she assumed the LW was "resentful" of her friends. This assumption speaks volumes about how single people are viewed in our culture. Secondly, my point in all of this is that no one who got invited to a dinner party would assume that they could just bring their best friend or their uncle or their sister or their coworker along uninvited, but for some reason, it is ok to just bring along your romantic partner. It doesn't make a lick of sense from any standpoint. If it's ok to restrict guests from bringing non-romantically involved guests to an event that you are hosting, it's ok to restrict them to bring anyone.

I frankly do not see how Prudie's attitude is anything BUT singlist. We have to change the way these things are thought about, or no progress will ever be made.