I Understand Now Why You Hate Sandra Tsing Loh
It’s the same reason I want to beat Elizabeth Wurtzel with an old shoe. They’re part of the same cabal of disillusioned essayists making a woman’s middle age sound like hell on earth. It has been clearly explained for me by 25-year-old Irina Aleksander in the New York Observer piece “The Cautionary Matrons“:
Single 40-something women warn us about being too career-oriented and forgetting to factor in children; married women warn us that marriage is a union in which sex and fidelity are optional; and divorced women warn us to keep our weight down, our breasts up and our skin looking like Saran Wrap unless we want our husbands to later leave us for 23-year-olds.
WORK SMARTER - LEARN, GROW AND BE INSPIRED.
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