More to Penelope & Friends
From Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist:
"Get Married First Then Focus on Career"
But the article ignores one of the most pressing issues facing Generation X: Infertility. No generation of women has had more trouble with fertility than this generation who received the terrible advice, “Wait. You have time. Focus on your career first.”
and from her Boston Globe column:
Women who want to have children should make it a priority in their twenties to find a partner. That's because one of the most dramatic issues facing Generation X is infertility.
and finally, from me:
I'm a freelance health writer. I write for lots of different publication venues, online and off. Not as many as I'd like, but I digress.
Most of this blog's readers know that my long-time mainstay (i.e. has fed my own personal product of the fertility industry) is writing about fertility, infertility, getting pregnant, staying pregnant, and the bells and whistles that go toward those ends.
Over the years, I've had a few editorial superiors who request I devote my attention (thereby subjecting my readers) to topics that are mostly crucial to them (the editors) and theirs. Just because a health topic is hot in your household doesn't mean that millions of other eyeballs will care. That sounds so reasonable as to be trite, but it's the truth.
Until the day comes when whatever I say about any topic of my own conjuring up is not only warmly received and read but looked forward to with anticipation... I gotta make my living writing about things that interest other people.
Sometimes that's not the same thing as my editor's Aunt Mildred's current pressing ailment.
Whether you're writing about infertility or cancer or infected toenails, it's imperative to avoid sounding the alarm -- even about things that are personally alarming.
