Thank you, Tash. Yes, I am doing what my grandmothers and mother didn't do and it feels great. It took until I was 60 to free myself from the patriarchy but I did it. May I recommend, Elizabeth Lessers brilliant work, Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers. Apropos.
This was brilliant! Thank you Tash. It reminds me of an exchange I heard between the productivity author Cal Newport and a female listener on his podcast. She was asking him how he had the ability to focus and get all of this stuff done when she had children and responsibilities and his reply was genuine befuddlement at her predicament and he told her to just get childcare- as if it was that easy and she was too stupid to figure that out on her own! And the subtext behind all of this that she was trying to get across to him is that there was no way he would be as “productive” as he is without help raising his children. I don’t think he ever got it. I’m lucky that I married a man who is older and retired early and likes to do all the cooking, yard work, and a lot of the house work in retirement while I am busy working and we chose not to have children. Anyway, thanks for giving me the heads up on Dickens. Now I won’t worry that I never read A Tale of Two Cities!
Thank you, Tash. Yes, I am doing what my grandmothers and mother didn't do and it feels great. It took until I was 60 to free myself from the patriarchy but I did it. May I recommend, Elizabeth Lessers brilliant work, Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers. Apropos.
This was brilliant! Thank you Tash. It reminds me of an exchange I heard between the productivity author Cal Newport and a female listener on his podcast. She was asking him how he had the ability to focus and get all of this stuff done when she had children and responsibilities and his reply was genuine befuddlement at her predicament and he told her to just get childcare- as if it was that easy and she was too stupid to figure that out on her own! And the subtext behind all of this that she was trying to get across to him is that there was no way he would be as “productive” as he is without help raising his children. I don’t think he ever got it. I’m lucky that I married a man who is older and retired early and likes to do all the cooking, yard work, and a lot of the house work in retirement while I am busy working and we chose not to have children. Anyway, thanks for giving me the heads up on Dickens. Now I won’t worry that I never read A Tale of Two Cities!
I really enjoyed this Tash! Too often women are not thought of and too often we are used. This was very thought provoking. Thank you.