Mother’s Little Helper. Part 2

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To be fair, doctors and drug companies don’t deserve all the blame. The more liberated, educated, and empowered we’ve become the more aggressively we’ve demanded that extra boost to “get by.” Supply and demand go hand in hand. Today’s high-achieving young woman has no time for life. The feminist movement told us we could do anything the boys could do and off we went, rushing madly to keep up with our male competitors, more than willing to swallow whatever concoction necessary to get up earlier, strive harder, be more positively energetic, and forget how overwhelmed and disconcerted we really were. Read the rest of this entry »

Mother’s Little Helper. Part 1

Society has never been very good at dealing with “women’s problems.” We are, after all, complicated beings, downright messy with our enigmatic emotions, insecurities, and needs. To paraphrase dissident feminist Marie Jose Ragab, “our little hearts get broken more easily.” We’re hardly less durable than men, just more sensitive, and as a result, more vulnerable to suggestions that a pretty pastel pill holds the answer to every ill. If you get tired, lonely, depressed, fat, pregnant…the antidote can be found just behind the medicine cabinet door.
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