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more about #selfhelp more comments → GoldenRatioφ (aka -girl11): Well Myer-Briggs says I'm an Architect, and I'm sticking with that. Personality types are even less stressful than "role-types" or whatever, because t... more » Cimorene: I just wanted to let you all know that I'm going to write a self help book and it's going to be awesome. It will be called Heterosexuality for the Rad... more » JP Meyer: The coverage of Stevenson and Wolfers' study reminds me of this: more » shorty63136: I had to take one of his seminars here at work - Trombone Player Wanted - and it was pretty interesting. Definitely works well with groups in corporat... more » futuremouse: Find Your Strongest Life: What the Happiest and Most Successful Women Do Differently It's like he played roulette with a wheel of happy happy fun wor... more » Jack_Burton: I often find myself "declining female happiness." Maybe I should find a new place to get massages. more » morninggloria: My self help book is called Fuck It. How Dramatically Lowered Standards Lead to Dramatically Fewer Disappointments more » FrabjousDay: Does anyone think this could be because of sexism? I know, I know, sexism isn't supposed to exist any more, or at least not be as bad as it was a few... more » Newsgirl: This is all a matter of perspective. And how low your standards can go. I mean, hey, I get happy when I can drive home and not end up in a 30 car pile... more » redqueenmeg: Can I be a Weaver? I love cross stitch. If only it could pay the bills. more » I, Zombie Normal: Are these nine life roles on that Amp/Pepsi pick-up line app? Also, you know Neanderthal women could beat modern men at arm wrestling and had really h... more » Schrodinger's Cat: Does Buckingham offer any books that will ensure that I'm paid as much as my male counterparts? How about one that makes my husband clean the kitchen... more » trlstanc: The authors of the original study actual provide a pretty thoughtful critique of this article: [freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com] more » judgingamy: New York Jezzies: Ehrenreich is speaking at a reading at Barnes and Noble on 82nd and Broadway tonight at 7pm. more » linnyt is a walking cliché: I think I'll just move to Denmark and be happy there with my free daycare and socialism. more » -
#selfharm
"Declining Female Happiness" May Be Just Another Way To Sell Shit
In an LA Times editorial, Barbara Ehrenreich writes that all the hue and cry over modern women's unhappiness may be just a ploy to sell us self-help. More » -
#chickflicks
Shoes, Self-Help & Catfights: What Women Want In Movies
This was the year, we're told, that Hollywood started making movies for women... as long as they were totally inane. And next year, as Self-Help Cinema launches, they'll be even more vapid! -
