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I don't mean to chum the waters here (actually, I do, or otherwise we have to talk about Pierre Boulez some more) but I can't help observing that the responses to Elodie's blue Monday career crisis divide themselves rather predictably along generational and gender lines. The women are generally sympathetic and encouraging, as are the younger men from the "sensitive" generation born in the 70s and 80s. The older men tend to be from the "stop whining and get on with it" school of thought. I'm not making a judgement--we are all products of the times in which we come of age--but simply making an observation. Am I wrong?
posted by Jerry Bowles
4:15 PM
