For years women have been fighting for equal rights and opportunities when it comes to men. A bunch of crazy ones have burnt their bras a while ago and for what? for nothing!!! I blame them!
Nowadays, I look around and find different type of women. At least, down here in Brazil, I can identify those that have burnt their bras and "cynically" claim they do not need men (but in my reckoning they do, but are not brave enough to admit it!!); those that have ignored the stupid bra burning episode and live a "happy" married life, some in this group work and some just don't do any professional activity and rely solely on the wages of their husbands (those in my cynic view are the happiest type); there are a very few examples of those that have it all: a happy marriage and a well-grounded career; and those, to which I belong, that got lost in the system and do not have either: nor a career or a happy marriage....
Don't get me wrong, but I would say, among my generation of women, the latter type is the most popular one. This thing of happily burning bras worked in some way fine for my mum's generation. But for the mid-thirties of the moment this does not work and only results in nothing. We run the risk of investing time and energy building a career, while putting our romantic life at the background, and suddenly when something goes wrong in the career, we end up with nothing! Nothing at all: just a huge amount of un-burnt bras in the drawer!!!
