Because you're too old to be called a spinster now.
In an era long gone it was expected that a woman find herself a husband, settle down and have babies (thank god those days are over).
And if she failed in this one simple task, she were dubbed a spinster, ouch.
However! The title of spinster was only granted to those 25 and younger.
Once you hit the big 26 you got a new name...a 'thornback'. Oh how the past makes us laugh sometimes!
Thornback's were unmarried women 26 and over according to research done by US woman Sophia Benoit, which she then shared on Twitter.
And of course Twitter embraced the label happily, being single is no longer something to be ashamed of, in fact it's a celebration.
Author Rebecca Traister wrote about the term in her book All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation.
"At twenty-six, women without spouses became thornbacks," she wrote.
"A reference to a sea-skate with sharp spines covering its back and tail. It was not a compliment."
Brutal.
Thankfully the thornback is now an extinct species, and good riddance too.
