Lisa Marchiano, Benjamin Boyce, and I talk about what’s going on with girls, rites of passage, symbolic symptoms, toxic Internet subcultures, daring new ideas about identity, and more—
I haven't finished listening but I have to say this: the conversation about intergenerational connection between women really hits home. When I was in my early twenties and I was not doing well emotionally, I remember feeling really disconnected from my family and from my mum in particular. I even told a friend once that I didn't think my mother could offer me anything in the way of guidance. This was probably because of how fraught our relationship had been when I was a teenager. But reading Veronica Smith's Hags made me realise that it wasn't just me, many women feel like the older women don't have anything to offer, that they don't get them and so on. I only realised that I was wrong in my late twenties, I was wrong about my mother and my aunties and older women in general. But I don't know how we can forge those bonds across generations when feminism itself plays a role in our division.
Unfortunately I can't make the book club (again) due to being forced into the workplace by feminists. Just kidding - but I am loving Feminism Against Progress and hope you will make a post with your thoughts!
I haven't finished listening but I have to say this: the conversation about intergenerational connection between women really hits home. When I was in my early twenties and I was not doing well emotionally, I remember feeling really disconnected from my family and from my mum in particular. I even told a friend once that I didn't think my mother could offer me anything in the way of guidance. This was probably because of how fraught our relationship had been when I was a teenager. But reading Veronica Smith's Hags made me realise that it wasn't just me, many women feel like the older women don't have anything to offer, that they don't get them and so on. I only realised that I was wrong in my late twenties, I was wrong about my mother and my aunties and older women in general. But I don't know how we can forge those bonds across generations when feminism itself plays a role in our division.
Unfortunately I can't make the book club (again) due to being forced into the workplace by feminists. Just kidding - but I am loving Feminism Against Progress and hope you will make a post with your thoughts!