The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve.
You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.
A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.
Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do.
Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.