Happy birthday.

And I agree - bachelorhood should become more legitimate. I don't see why someone should feel that they haven't "done something with their life" unless they'd gotten married. I, for one, don't see marriage in the near future, or in the later future, for that matter. Questions like "well, what about a girlfriend?" are starting to get on my nerves.

Hell, maybe I'll just declare myself married to Lady Science, and be done with it. ;-)

x is a bachelor =/> x is alone.

Depends on what you think of as the real problem. As I see it, the real problem is that most people just assume that to have a satisfying life, one must make a family. I don't see it that way.
As for people who are not married because they cannot find partners - why should they feel like failures, as if their life should be horrid, or something?

I put scientific research, intellectual gratification, and such things, above the search for a wench to drag into my cave, in which to have my children, chase the rats away while I'm hunting, and feed me when I come back home, tired from a long day of scouting for non-commuting members of some species of symmetric group.

Have I made my position clear?

Again, your implicit assumption that love is a bare necessity. I contest.

I was being purposefully blunt and extreme, to drive my point in: it is not obvious that marriage is a Good Thing, as opposed to what Hezi constantly contends.

And, once more, the "in x years you will understand why I'm right" argument is really not working here.