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The author posts, "It's unfortunate that young women experience the stress of trying to be all and do all, but there's something to be said for the fact that they don't see beauty and brains, or desirability and independence, as so mutually exclusive that it would prevent the pursuit, however conflicted, of both."
Beauty and brains are NEVER conflicted -- nor are desirability and independence. Both beauty and brains come from DNA, neither can be enhanced through force of will. Does the author imply going to college makes a woman less beautiful? My observations are that most college educated women are better looking than the average.
Also, do young women have some special burden that the rest of us don't? As a middle-aged man, I've been through many phases in my life, none of them have been without stress. It's absurd to assign them some special, "woe-is-me" designation to young women -- get a life.
