Career, Home, and Family
“We evolved to hope for more than career success. We also evolved to strive for more than just family. One person who has been making this point (and raising her own brand of hell) is Iliza Shlesinger. I use her here as an example of people fighting for the right to love above all else. Pascoe (as I’ve noted) is also doing this in her science-informed comedy routines and writing and finding a receptive global audience. So is Iliza Shlesinger, described by Elle magazine as ‘a comedian wrapped in a social critic.’ Shlesinger is a stand-up comic who has been riffing on the centrality of relationships to our lives from a perspective informed by evolutionary psychology. Shlesinger is an incredibly talented actor, able to transform her face and body from young woman to old crone, from anorexic silhouette to catty “party goblin”— an example of true dedication as a physical performer. Without prosthetic makeup or costumes, using only body movement and crazy voice tics to highlight her gags, Shlesinger delivers deadly accurate relationship and pair-bonding humor (and implicit sex advice too) with her Netflix specials, ‘Elder Millennial,’ ‘Confirmed Kills,’ and ‘Iliza unVeiled.’ “
[ Photo Credit: Koury Angelo ]
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Fall in Love, Have Children, Stay Put, Save the Planet, Be Happy
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To be published November 2 by HCI Books • Distributed by Simon & Schuster
