Women’s equivalent of the Roman Empire

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Anonymous wrote:I'd have to say, not just murder, but all kinds of deadly scenarios and how to survive, and make sure my kids survive. Like natural disasters, car crashes, falling down the stairs, deadly pathogens, and yes, murder, etc. I don't think about these things constantly, in a need meds kind of way, but probably at least every couple days. It's hard to avoid with the headlines these days.

Huh, I guess my version of this is frequent thinking about climate change, microplastics, biosphere collapse and related economic and political volatility. I think about the acceleration of all of that (and contribute to myself) when I see airplanes flying, SUVs hitting the gas, weather/disaster reports, unwrapping plastic-wrapped food items, getting an Amazon delivery, massive amounts of garbage and waste, green chemlawns with no pollinators, fast fashion, etc etc.

Oh, I am the person you quoted, and yes, climate change is definitely something I think about regularly. But again, more in the, how are we going to survive this, vein.

But this is not really random like the Roman Empire is. I think we all think about this stuff because we are living in it.

Yeah I think that all the “women’s equivalent” articles and discussions have really highlighted that there is no one topic we all dwell on in the same way as men. Women think about completely different things from each other, except for when it’s something that is actually affecting us.

Umm, neither do guys...

I think this phenomenon shows that at least some subset of guys actually are thinking about the same topic with regularity. This is obviously anecdotal, but reflective of the trend: when my group of female friends asked their husbands (5 couples, all from different parts of the US who moved to the DMV as adults, working in different industries), all of the husbands thought about the Roman Empire at least once a week. Try as we might, we could not come up with a similar topic that the women all had in common, unless it was something we were actively discussing amongst ourselves (a TV show, our kids, a neighbor, an event in the news). The men had never discussed the Roman Empire with each other even once. But there they were, all thinking about it.

You said it. The difference isn't that the men think about something and women don't. The difference is that women talk about everything and men don't.