Great article.
Our mothers and grandmothers were no less sad, annoyed, fed-up, or otherwise “depressed” as Dennis Prager labels it.
One difference between Grandma and the women of today is that Grandma and to some extent, mother, had no choice but to shut the heck up and submit to her husband and the kids, no matter how miserable and disgusted she was.
Grandma and mother were dependent solely on their man’s pay check, which he controlled. Being dependent and basically a household servant with benefits is something which daughters of today do not see as rewarding albeit many women are still living. Lives not fully realized are lives sometimes lived in sadness.
The other difference is that the aspirin mother and grandma took yesterday to help chill her out is today’s prozac.
