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cheymathews 's review for:
Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough
by Lori Gottlieb
DID NOT FINISH
DNF at chapter 3.
This book was so disappointingly bad especially since I loved loved loved her book Maybe You Should Talk to Someone.
This was… not that.
First of all, the book starts off with the unnamed assumption that to be happy you need to have a husband and if you don’t have one you’ve failed life. This seems a bit like a projection of the author’s own life circumstances more than anything else.
Second, I think a book about why women should “settle” for men should talk about the sexist reasons that make it harder for women to find partners later in life. Off the top of my head I can think of research on:
- how older men prefer younger partners to ones their age
- how men are less likely to date a woman more successful than them
- how women are expected to do it all and that can be draining so why would they want to?
This book posits a bunch of anecdotal complaining about men versus women as insight when it really could have benefited from viewing relationships in the context of historical relationship dynamics as well as just people being people not ALL WOMEN or ALL MEN.
This book was so disappointingly bad especially since I loved loved loved her book Maybe You Should Talk to Someone.
This was… not that.
First of all, the book starts off with the unnamed assumption that to be happy you need to have a husband and if you don’t have one you’ve failed life. This seems a bit like a projection of the author’s own life circumstances more than anything else.
Second, I think a book about why women should “settle” for men should talk about the sexist reasons that make it harder for women to find partners later in life. Off the top of my head I can think of research on:
- how older men prefer younger partners to ones their age
- how men are less likely to date a woman more successful than them
- how women are expected to do it all and that can be draining so why would they want to?
This book posits a bunch of anecdotal complaining about men versus women as insight when it really could have benefited from viewing relationships in the context of historical relationship dynamics as well as just people being people not ALL WOMEN or ALL MEN.