Media Reality

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Poignant article on the whole mother daughter dynamic. If any of you guys read it, comments here would be great. What it made me think about is that our lives aren't going to be idyllically perfect. Family life is stressful. That's why so many people who are financially able to live alone, end up doing so. (Then some of them bemoan their lack of a

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The Albatross

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"A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle."
- Gloria Steinem

There's an awful lot of tapdancing and empty hand-wrining in that article. I was reading it with the expectation that Chesler would have a point, something other than, "Well, these things happen." About the only point she does make is the tired lamment: "However, great men are allowed every excess and failure; great women are never forgiven for making a single mistake

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To me her point was that there is no right way to be a feminist that excludes all other ways. And that while this is the story of a daughter who is by no means a youngster, she still cannot fully empathize with a generation that is older than hers. Because by the time we fully finish maturing, we are ready to no longer be above the sod. There is still a double standard for the sexes. Men are not chastised for personal expression or for youthful high jinks the way women are, and motherhood in an always present, completely sacrificing mode, is still an expectation.