I would rather have seen some of these women say "no" to the expectations than to self-doubt, but that's just me. While reading Who Cares What You're Supposed to Do?, I was able to filter the situations through some of my friends, and I felt like this book might be helpful to some of them. As for me, maybe I'm just in denial. Although I did find the chapter on "Be Popular" thought-provoking. Many of the chapters describe things I've been through in life--moving to a new city, being alone and worrying that I should be dating someone, obsessing over my appearance. (What woman can't relate to that last one?) But these are points I have since passed. Would this book have been useful to me if I'd had it then, when I was in the midst of self-doubt? In that year after college when I worked in a copy shop and wondered what to do with a film degree? Perhaps. Which is why I'll pass it on to some of my friends in the hope that they'll find some wisdom in it. Maybe they'll add me to their list of #4 above.
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