The article neglects that it isn't hormones or chemical relief that ultimately causes middle aged women to go into a deepening depression of mind, body and spirit. It is the displacement of women in the baby boom generation.
All the Women's Movement did for women and children was make them tired and estranged. It is too late for now middle-aged women who were raised on a model that simply doesn't exist anymore. The new generation of women don't know anything different than to measure their worth in financial gain and institutionalizing their children from 6 weeks on and so the new model will work for them. It's just a new order of slavery and we will still grow old and one day die, only now mostly alone and very sad, never realizing there may have been more to living than a prolonged adolescence we hoped the myth of self-fulfillment in the job market and celebrity culture would buy. The whole social order has slipped into a system of permanent debt, unstable wages and community/familial estrangement.
Gloria Steinem and the other leaders of the Movement were an elitist corp, and no one realized it until it was too late. Now, women are as forced into the totalitarian workplace as once they were to stay home and raise their own children in a community of creative women. You will not see the leaders of the Woman's Movement retire in poverty or succumb to loneliness and suicide, but you will see their everyday sisters die alone in impoverishment. But isn't that always the way in the gap between General and foot soldier.
Breathe deep and step day by day, whether sharecropper or CEO. We all end up in the box or urn anyway. Work hard so you can afford a good one, I suppose.
This comment is written in part from a response I wrote to a U.S. News article by Deborah Kotz on middle-aged women and suicide. I still feel the same about that response. There are now more than 70 comments on that article Kotz abandoned long ago, but they each echo that the myth failed in a deeply profound way.
While I am not as naive to say that chemical dependency and emotional/physiological issues are not a component of suicide among middle aged women, the reasons are more complex and it is these complexities no one is addressing. Women of the baby boomer generation are a lost and abandoned generation of women.
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The article neglects that it isn't hormones or chemical relief that ultimately causes middle aged women to go into a deepening depression of mind, body and spirit. It is the displacement of women in the baby boom generation.
All the Women's Movement did for women and children was make them tired and estranged. It is too late for now middle-aged women who were raised on a model that simply doesn't exist anymore. The new generation of women don't know anything different than to measure their worth in financial gain and institutionalizing their children from 6 weeks on and so the new model will work for them. It's just a new order of slavery and we will still grow old and one day die, only now mostly alone and very sad, never realizing there may have been more to living than a prolonged adolescence we hoped the myth of self-fulfillment in the job market and celebrity culture would buy. The whole social order has slipped into a system of permanent debt, unstable wages and community/familial estrangement.
Gloria Steinem and the other leaders of the Movement were an elitist corp, and no one realized it until it was too late. Now, women are as forced into the totalitarian workplace as once they were to stay home and raise their own children in a community of creative women. You will not see the leaders of the Woman's Movement retire in poverty or succumb to loneliness and suicide, but you will see their everyday sisters die alone in impoverishment. But isn't that always the way in the gap between General and foot soldier.
Breathe deep and step day by day, whether sharecropper or CEO. We all end up in the box or urn anyway. Work hard so you can afford a good one, I suppose.
This comment is written in part from a response I wrote to a U.S. News article by Deborah Kotz on middle-aged women and suicide. I still feel the same about that response. There are now more than 70 comments on that article Kotz abandoned long ago, but they each echo that the myth failed in a deeply profound way.
While I am not as naive to say that chemical dependency and emotional/physiological issues are not a component of suicide among middle aged women, the reasons are more complex and it is these complexities no one is addressing. Women of the baby boomer generation are a lost and abandoned generation of women.
NiNi St. Paul, MN
August 15, 2012 - 5:40pmThis Comment
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