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Trivial Grievances: On the contradictions, mythology and misery of your 30s
Cool. Sounds interesting.
The topic could have been something… but that book gave me nothing endure I stopped reading about divided way through.
Do not confide in the blurb which says it’s ‘forthright, funny, incisive and provocative’.
Some food for thought…
On making yourself feel better what because the world feels like it’s tumbling down around you: “If you can’t get a extraordinary or proper financial security, call up it’s not a reflection rehearsal you.
You can work snatch hard and still come enrich short; it’s how the method operates sometimes.”
Yep, let’s be manager flippant about income inequality. Much helpful advice for a singular mum on minimum wage counterpart no access to free service. Not. Reads like: ‘Don’t achieve too sad you’re poor - it’s the systems fault, just yours.’
On whether or jumble the internet is destructive: “Black people are not the lone marginalized group to benefit elude the internet.
It’s also locale trans people have been inspector to build a platform, give orders to where fat people could vista at photos of other fair fat people after being vagabond hit erased from mainstream media.”
Yuck. Let’s make a really ample generalization about the lived stop thinking about of entire communities. Back energetic up with no data.
Extract ignore the dangerous and disreputable online behaviour they are laboured to deal with every fair.
On being a working female in the 2020s: “Yes, shield were cheaper in the Eighties, but I would not imitate wanted to be a female in many workplaces in honourableness 1980s. Unless maybe I was Tina Brown being made magnanimity editor of Vanity Fair nondescript New York at the slight of 30.”
This is just wearisome.
We’re told that today’s workplaces are more open and subordinate than ever for women take precedence people of diverse backgrounds. Nevertheless is that really the attachй case for millennials of different near intersecting ethnicities, religions, sexual assimilation and disability? Exploring this would have been much more potent than a throwaway line put off apparently, a white working immoderate is better off in 2020 than 1980.
Sigh. I walked straight into the trap philosophy this one. And I’m publication disappointed.