I do find Gottlieb's blithe assumtion that she sheaks for every woman, and that she knows what is right for every woman, staggeringly parochial. I cannot imagine a woman, living in today's world and exposed to international media, could fail to comprehend that there are a plethora of enriching choices out there, of which (het)marriage is one, but nowhere near the only. Romantic ideals are just that, best grown out of and replaced by the richer knowledge of adulthood, but such a cynical and grasping outlook sickens me. Your concepts are much more in line with my notion of reality; in love is great, but finite, you have to have a stable base on which to build a life. Gottlieb's faint contempt is not that.
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Date: 2008-03-05 04:36 am (UTC)Romantic ideals are just that, best grown out of and replaced by the richer knowledge of adulthood, but such a cynical and grasping outlook sickens me.
Your concepts are much more in line with my notion of reality; in love is great, but finite, you have to have a stable base on which to build a life. Gottlieb's faint contempt is not that.