This book sounds very dangerous for me, as I would love to just drop everything and move to Paris, and don’t need any encouragement to do so.

Question: I’m assuming Holdforth is… American? English? I’m just asking because, as an outsider to a culture, it’s very hard to judge exactly how the dynamics of it work. I can see how English and American women find moving outside their own culture liberating, because then you’re not as tied to the strictures of decorum that you grew up with. But to call French women more powerful and adult than women from other countries is bullhocky, imo. Especially if the basis for said argument is that the older a woman is in France, the more respect she gets–isn’t that the case, like, I don’t know, practically everywhere? I know in my family the oldest woman in the room is the de facto leader, anyway.
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