added by Rachel Ooi · updated 4mo ago
The Friendship Dip
- As Barbara Ehrenreich and Katherine Newman have convincinglyargued, many boomers also had anxiety about falling out of the middle class in their 30s and 40s. But those years of their lives were not subject to constant optimization. The kernels of productivity culture had been sewn, but they hadn’t yet been normalized. Some upper middle-class white ... See more
from The Friendship Dip by Anne Helen Petersen
Brandy Cerne added 1y ago
- what I absorbed was that 1) my parents had social lives, and sometimes those social lives complimented my own (the blessed dinner party that included parents of friends my age) and sometimes they trumped them; 2) sometimes being a part of something meant just showing up every week and doing semi-boring stuff, like setting out the cookies before cof... See more
from The Friendship Dip by Anne Helen Petersen
Brandy Cerne added 1y ago