The following article is Larry Bilotta’s take on Lori Gottlieb’s latest column, “Marry Him!” From the March 2008 issues of Atlantic Monthly
Well, it’s finally happened.
In a national Magazine, (Atlantic Monthly for March 2008) a woman wrote her tell-all story about the fact that the dreamy, no-work, no effort, love-ethic in America (now increasingly spreading across the world) is a farce, a scam, a sham, a mockery.
This woman described the fact that women in their 30’s and 40’s all over the country are now waking up to the fact that they simply can’t expect the Hollywood-style romance in marriage.
Who is this woman? Its National Public Radio commentator Lori Gottlieb who decided in her late 30’s that waiting for the perfect man was not working. She decided, as she put it, “in a fit of self-empowerment, to conceive her baby with donor sperm because she hadn’t met Mr. Right yet.”
Rather than making her free and independent, this left her feeling empty, stressed out and not very attractive to suitors who were a bit put off about the idea that she has a sperm donor’s baby.
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