A woman (man) prefers to focus on her (his) career. Big deal.

A woman (man) prefers to focus on having a family. Big deal.

A woman (man) regrets the life choices he made. Big deal.

There is no life without regret (and there is no life without consolation). Why must everything be a fight? Live and let live.

Well, I admit not to have watched this movie but I have read your review and, if it is accurate, it doesn't seem feminist to me. It seems that both women are depicted in a negative light.

In my life (and I am not young anymore) I have heard thousands of men talking about women. Some were only acquaintances, some were intimate friends, some were family.

When refusing to go out with a certain woman, some sentences uttered by these men were along the lines (not that I say that this is fair: I am only describing reality, not judging it):

- I don't like her: she is ugly, she is fat or she is old.

- I don't want to date her: she is selfish or self-absorbed.

- I don't want to be with her: she is really unkind.

Variations of these sentences have been repeated once and again.

But in 38 years of life, I have NEVER heard sentences like that:

- I don't want to date her: I am intimidated by her success, because she is a career woman. I would prefer a traditional woman.

To be fair, I haven't heard the opposite either: I really like her because she has a career, she is such a catch because she has money and a fascinating job. In fact, as far as I know, the vast majority of men don´t give a damn about the career of a voman: neither in a positive way nor in a negative way.

So I don't know where all this thing of "she is intimidated by career woman" comes from. It seems rationalitation to me. Sure, he doesn't like you but, believe me, it's not because of your career.

Or we can do something.

Until Democrats don't make efforts to have their own media, Democtratic party will always be in disavantage in this country.

Asehpe's experience, Anonymous_Two's experience or my evidence are not statistically significant. They are only anecdotal evidence.

Everybody tends to interact with similar people, due to his geographic location, culture, upbringing, personal preferences. I think that Madonna must have a different take on people than me. We know different kind of people.

In addition, Anonymous_Two's experience is not the same as yours, Asehpe (and not the same as mine).

Anyway, I will love to see a good statistical study. But I think there may be not.

Nobody has commented anything. I was expected to see a bloodshed, one of the most venerable Broadsheet traditions, with people arguing each other with rage. So funny and entertaining. But nothing happens and this is BOOOORING.

Anyway, I like curvy women and skinny women.

Being a foreigner, I am amazed at the love/hate relationship that American people have with fat and food.

I am from a country where food is celebrated. Every party has lots and lots of food. Food is the excuse to meet friends, to gather families. Weddings have five dishes, plus the cake and the ice cream. But people is much thinner than here.

Now, I live in an American city where overweight people is 60% of the population and obese people are 30%. I don't think this is healthy. But I don't think people eat more than in my country. Maybe they eat worse: lots of fast food restaurants and premade food (but they only have 30 minutes to eat so this is not surprising).

American are curvy people but they are obsessed with skinny models and actresses. They are fatter than the rest of the world and their models are skinnier, almost aneroxic. Can someone explain me this "bipolar" attitude? No offense meant. I only want to understand.

Very good and insightful explanation. Now I understand. Thank you.

I have been thinking more about the "Men are intimidated by career women" thing. I have always assumed that was a lame excuse to dump women. This is because I haven't seen nobody to dump a 20-something-year-old hot career girl because she has a career. On the contrary, it seems to me that this kind of women is in high demand (I see it everyday) and they can have her pick of partners.

But Asehpe and Anonymous_Two seem to have different experience and I may be wrong. So I have been thinking about this thing because it has some implications I have not been aware of.

If men are intimidated by career women and don't want to be with them for the long term, this implies that a woman must choose between a career and a man (and, by extension, and a family). So the "you can't have it all" mantra is not true. So if you don't want to end up alone, you have to give up your dreams of a career. I am talking on average: there are exceptions.

It seems a depressing choice for me. But if it is true, it is better to know it than to ignore it.

Is it my reasoning faulty?

So the "you can have it all" mantra is not true.

And, as usual, I wrote the contrary