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Book Review

Millennial Speak TV show in Puerto Rico to participate in a competition
with boys pitted against girls, and she was allotted the
Tim Samuels. Future Man, How to Evolve and Thrive in role as the bad-assed Virgin. She attended University of
the Age of Trump, Mansplaining, and #Metoo. New York: Virginia at the time of the scandal over mistreatment of
Arcade Publishing, 2019. women. After graduation, as a young idealist, she went
Jia Tolentino. Trick Mirror, Reflections of Self-Delusion. New on to serve in the Peace Corps in Kyrgyzstan. She has
York: Random House, 2019. explored all of the current fads from alt-Rock, Ecstasy,
the modern battle of the sexes, i.e. “pot calling the kettle to Hot Yoga, Barre, and athlesisure clothing fashion like
black” (Montaigne) Spanx and High-Waist Fishnet Legging.
Ms. Tolentino is familiar with and cites the thousand
By Dr. Ronald J. Meyers year chapter and verse legends of the good women
from Christine de Pisan to Simone de Beauvoir who
Millennial, in the uncovered the marriage “hoax.” She cites the ideal or
best and worst of times, difficult woman’s viewing herself through a trick mirror
refers to those individuals room for maneuver seems more generous”; since, he notes, “that carries the illusion of flawlessness as well as self-
emerging from adolescence men are more likely to occupy the lowest professions, flagellating option of constantly finding fault.” She
and coming to age, in this and prison populations, live homeless, endure earlier attacks Trump for his misguided masculinity as part and
instance at the start of this health issues and die sooner than a gentle sex. He sees the parcel of everything that ails current society.
twenty first century. They modern malaise of the crisis of embattled masculinity. He Just as Tim Samuels has profound reservations
are the advocates of the suggests that the appeal of Donald Trump, who received about settling down in marriage and raising a family,
new millennium, and the 72% of the white rural male vote in 2016, underscores the she recounts with great sincerity her own bias. She
indicators of that direction. exigencies of the dissatisfied male, with whom Samuels and Andrew, her boyfriend of many years, are frequent
The last century, the twentieth, produced its share of identifies and has driven him to seek Therapy. He muses attendees at weddings, but never, to this point, as bride
defiant post adolescents. Early on, there was the reaction that he wishes he could enjoy his Jewish faith and his and groom; rendering Sylvia Plath’s apercu that “in spite
after the death of the Queen to the Victorian age, and disparaging efforts to review a Sushi smorgasbord of 600 of all the roses and kisses and restaurant dinners a man
the rejection of Victorian prudery as well as the radical dating sites and frustrating inability to connect. showered on a woman before he married her, what he
experimentation in art which brought us the rage from Jia Tolentino worries whether women can escape secretly wanted when the wedding service ended was for
Cubism to Dada. In the Depression era, there was the the confinements that have been inflicted upon them her to flatten out underneath his feet like Mrs. Willard’s
angst and disappointment in government and celebration throughout history. Essay collections do not typically kitchen mat.”
of Eastern religions to escape the sense of materialism end up on the Top Ten Best Seller list but hers does. She
and perceived purposelessness of modern life. Mid- is a notable achiever; born in Canada to parents from the Dr. Ronald J. Meyers, an Emeritus professor of
century there were the Beats and the Feminists, angry Philippines, her family immigrated to Houston where she English, has written his account of the male-female scene
young men and women not concealing their rage who grew up as a typical southern girl. Until she found her in Waiting for Godiva, A Guide for Thinking Women and
reflected swagger and proud individualism; followed by identity as a writer, she was a cheerleader, enrolled in a Men to the Story of Love (2002), cited in Wikiquotes.
the hippies who joyously engaged in drugs, rock and roll conservative Christian school, and very ambitious. At rmeyers@esu.edu. 
and opposition to the Vietnam War. At the close of the age sixteen, she applied and found herself on a Reality
last century, the preppy coming of age generation enjoyed
the confidence and the new life-altering opportunities
of the digital revolution. Today casual dress, flip flops,
sexual equality, and work at home are de rigueur in the
world made by the achievements of the likes of Mark
Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos, but also informed by the
housing bubble, failures of Enron, Lehman Brothers
and just now Thomas Cook; these are the well educated,
idealistic and impatient, exposed to the most up-to-date
apps, subject to the life-burdening expense of higher
education, susceptible to ubiquitous cons and scams.
Two eloquent voices of the millennials are the subject
of this book review. Tim Samuels, a journalist and Servicing PETS of Boca Raton
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