Instead, much of feminism has devolved into the silly. And it has powerful support for this: a popular culture insistent on offering images of grown single women as frazzled, self-absorbed girls. Ally McBeal is the most popular female character on television. The show, for the few who may have missed it, focuses on a ditsy 28-year-old Ivy League Boston litigator who...spends much of her time fantasizing about her ex-boyfriend, who is married and in the next office, and manages to work references to her mangled love life into nearly every summation she delivers....She answers the question "Why are your problems so much bigger than everyone else's?" with the earnest response "Because they're mine."
Whatever you choose to give your attention to becomes most important. I'd say it's fair to assume that most people pay more attention to their own problems than they do other peoples'.
The idea that your problems are "bigger" than everyone else's is your perception, and may or may not be the reality.
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Ally McBeal
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Instead, much of feminism has devolved into the silly. And it has powerful support for this: a popular culture insistent on offering images of grown single women as frazzled, self-absorbed girls. Ally McBeal is the most popular female character on television. The show, for the few who may have missed it, focuses on a ditsy 28-year-old Ivy League Boston litigator who...spends much of her time fantasizing about her ex-boyfriend, who is married and in the next office, and manages to work references to her mangled love life into nearly every summation she delivers....She answers the question "Why are your problems so much bigger than everyone else's?" with the earnest response "Because they're mine."
Basically, Yes.
Whatever you choose to give your attention to becomes most important. I'd say it's fair to assume that most people pay more attention to their own problems than they do other peoples'.
The idea that your problems are "bigger" than everyone else's is your perception, and may or may not be the reality.
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