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A review by biobabe
Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis by Ada Calhoun
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2.5
While I could appreciate some of the points made, this came off largely as a whine fest about how Gen X has had it worse than anyone. I acknowledge that generation certainly went through rough times, but so has every other generation. While it pays occasional lip service to other groups, the author mostly stalks around the "challenges" of cisgendered, heterosexual, middle to upper-middle class women (oh, I didn't get married and now I'm too old! Wahhhhh, I wanted two more children, but now I'm too old! I only have a million dollars saved and another 15+ years before retirement, and I'm panicking!)
While I could appreciate some of the points made, this came off largely as a whine fest about how Gen X has had it worse than anyone. I acknowledge that generation certainly went through rough times, but so has every other generation. While it pays occasional lip service to other groups, the author mostly stalks around the "challenges" of cisgendered, heterosexual, middle to upper-middle class women (oh, I didn't get married and now I'm too old! Wahhhhh, I wanted two more children, but now I'm too old! I only have a million dollars saved and another 15+ years before retirement, and I'm panicking!)