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Originally posted by KSig RC
And congratulations for not doing it, because you've identified the gender politics involved in this sort of 'transaction' but not acting on it would make it all for nothing. That said, I think it's absurd to deride the author as somehow subversive to some sort of larger sense of feminine self, as some seem to want to do. The advice is a 'coping' strategy for working around an endemic problem - whether for better or worse, that's her solution. You and I seem to desire not to bow to gender imaging, but then again when I'm 45 I may have changed perspectives . . .
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the problem that the author is facing is a surplus of individuals who can't get past the nature of her position or her achievements. the problem does not lie with her, so why should the author settle and introduce people in her life who can't get over the fact that they aren't as successful in their professional life as she is? it's a fact of life.