Will
you take a Diet Coke or an attractive man with that high-powered career? Hell, personally,
I’d like all three, and super-sized. Wouldn’t we all? Perhaps I sound like one
giant walking cliché, but according to Ken Mondschein’s History of
a Single Life: Career Woman, it’s not my fault. Us girls have been
convinced throughout history, from The
Feminine Mystique to Sex and the City,
that if we posses a certain education, a certain career, a certain personality
(and don’t forget certain consumer goods!) that — POOF! — we will snag the
perfect Prince Charming and live happily ever after.
So why does something still
seem amiss in so many young, hip, well-educated, career-driven, Diet Coke-buying
women’s lives? Maybe Cosmo and Carrie
don’t have all the answers. Mondschein’s advice? Nuke ’em:
“What I really believe is that the Sex and
the Fill in the Blank dream is just another marketing scheme
designed to sell mascara, not all that different from Gurley Brown's Cosmo (or Heffner's Playboy, for that matter). Perhaps the real path to happiness is to do what a truly independent person might do: put the Sex and the
City DVDs in the microwave.”
We’ll
happily oblige, Ken. Read
more here.
— Alexandra Godfrey
