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“but there is a still a very very LONG way to go to help/prevent from continuting ALL the Agunos and Akaros (yes older single girls are aguons and akaros-sorry for being so blunt) “
The terms agunos has very specific implications, and I think that in spite of someone using that term in relation to single women, it is inappropriate on this particular site to compare a girl or woman who is not yet married to one who wants more than anything in the world to be UNMARRIED. It is not equivalent terminology, not hlachically and not in reality. A single girl still has the potential to meet and then marry her zivug, but as long as a woman is an agunah she cannot even DATE, because she is an eishes ish. I question the viability of referring to both types of women by the same term.
As to akaros, that is a special gehenim in itself for the woman who prays with all her heart every day to become pregnant and ends up going to the mikvah month after month, with no pregnancy occurring. That, too, should not be compared to either being single or being an agunah. Each situation has its own set of tzaar attached and should be judged as such.