As our kids develop their first crushes, start to date, and fall in love, we watch with hope, excitement, and trepidation. Will they get hurt? Will they choose someone good to them or pine for someone unkind or unavailable? How can we set them up to understand love when we don't understand it half the time? Even so, it’s our job to drive home what a good relationship is and what to watch out for.
The misogyny overlay adds weight to the overall stress load women are carrying today.
We need to consider how the stress related to misogyny negatively affects women’s health, at an individual and public health level now, more than ever, because misogyny is on the rise (at least the outward expression and level of aggressiveness).
Big tha…
PREPARING GIRLS FOR LOVE: Tell your daughters that it doesn’t matter if someone feels love, if he can’t show it most of the time. Tell them it doesn’t matter, even if they understand his trauma. The concept behind these words is you can’t love a man into examining his pain, no matter how beautiful, smart, or caring you are, because you c…
Loved talking to Molly about misogyny and stress and hearing too what and had to say! Such a smart, thought-provoking piece I will be pondering for a long time.
I promise you, women do not take up too much space. It’s just factually inaccurate. Despite having written a book aaaalll about sexism, it never ceases to piss me off when I hear a new statistic about women’s erasure like their voices make up 1% (!!!) of the bible. JFC!!!
Endlessly debating the meaning of the latest Trump/Musk horror is not activism.
Spending endless hours doom-scrolling until you are so panicked that you can’t function isn’t activism.
Trying to convince people things are hopeless isn’t activism.
Despair isn’t activism.
These actions—and many like them, that burn through our emotional energy but which accomplish nothing—feel like activism because they are exhausting.
But the despair, panic, and overwhelm are the point. Fascist coups depend on th…
Let’s do this thing! Let’s do it right here on Substack and everywhere else.