niarogers

I am 51 and deeply regret not having kids. I was stringently brainwashed into believing that I should never have children. I’ve never even been pregnant as far as I know. I was on birth control from age 16 through age 49.

I am 45 and when I look back on my experiences as a young woman I rarely had boomer women, even close mentors, recommend children or family formation. The propaganda was that having a baby too young would ruin young women and prevent them from having a “meaningful career”. There was never any discussion of how meaningful and important a role motherhood is.

Megyn Kelly just got brutally honest about HRT: “I’m on it and I love it.” She says it completely fixed her dry eye, cleared brain fog, improved her skin, and made her feel vibrant again — things she had no idea were hormone-related. Her attitude? “I’m going down swinging.” No shame in doing what actually works as you get older. Josh Duhamel backed her up, saying she’s the perfect poster child for it and the science is there. It’s one of the most refreshing takes I’ve heard on a topic people usually tiptoe around. Have you (or someone you know) tried HRT and seen real changes?

I think you’ve hit on a key distinction. 90% of what I read is for information. Half of that is solely for information about the external world: history, math, science, etc. the creativity and style of the writing doesn’t really matter. The other half is from primary sources, in which case it’s crucial that a particular person wrote it because one of the points is to understand their particular internal beliefs (ie I would not read an encyclopedia to get the same information) The remaining 10% of the time that I read fiction, I would indeed feel uncomfortable reading AI, because part of the joy of fiction is entering into someone else’s thoughts. AI has no thoughts, so it would feel wrong trying to enter into them.