That's the question my husband asked me once. (He also asked, "Why do women have such low expectations of men?" but that's a subject for another post).
Yesterday's New York Times Book Review featured a piece on Nora Ephron's new book, I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman .
Nora Ephron is a funny, talented woman (she wrote Sleepless in Seattle, among other things), and it's a damn shame that she would waste ink and paper on this drivel. I cannot fathom who in their right mind would pony up $19.95 to read it.
Would you bemoan the state of your thinning neck to a kid in a cancer ward? Only the lucky get old, so get over it. In the meantime, stay out of tanning salons and wear sunscreen.
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Good blog today, Terry! I wonder the same things myself. I do have high expectations of men, but the wait to find an available one with these qualities seems interminable. Nontheless, I will not settle.
Read and loved your e-book, and do practice the affirmations daily and seem to have slayed all my dragons, but still not meeting anyone even general ballpark, though I am open and active. I think it gets much, much harder after age 35 as most of the good men are, indeed married and likely to stay that way. I do have to disagree with you that there are many excellent men out there...they are few and far between! Especially if you are a professional woman who wishes to marry her equal, in addition to finding compatibility and attraction. The men I have met seem to have one but not the other....the "nice guy" who doesn't ring your bell or the successful attractive man who is emotionally unavailable.
Still, I believe your theories are sound even if the end result is only that women do not lower their standards and settle for losers....sparing themselves unending pain.
Sorry, I got off topic a bit. But the fact is, I really believe that the odds are against all of us women finding someone we would want to marry, who wants to marry us.
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