So instead of engaging or debating with the ideas presented in the piece, you immediately dig into the author's personal life as a way of disagreeing with it? The article is specifically about the middle class having two careers, with an explicit description of this being a "middle class phenomenon".
Perhaps that's just the era we live in--where ideas no longer are relevant without the context of the person delivering the idea--where human beings are unable to research or insert themselves into mental constructs due to their lack of 'perspective', that is, their lack of having a specific and acceptable background and history. Interesting that this is the exact frustration so many people express about political correctness, where arguments, ideas, and contributions are invalidated purely based on background, decisions, or other environmental factors.
Perhaps that's just the era we live in--where ideas no longer are relevant without the context of the person delivering the idea--where human beings are unable to research or insert themselves into mental constructs due to their lack of 'perspective', that is, their lack of having a specific and acceptable background and history. Interesting that this is the exact frustration so many people express about political correctness, where arguments, ideas, and contributions are invalidated purely based on background, decisions, or other environmental factors.