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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not that no woman is happy or that you can't be an imperfect woman. The monologue is mainly just about how the expectations for women are constantly contradictory, and this makes it hard ("impossible") to feel like you are meeting expectations because no matter what you do, it's wrong.[/quote]

This, above. OP, you're overthinking this monologue, trying to parse every phrase and "find" where those things are actually happening, and when you don't recognize any of it in YOUR life, you're dismissing the whole monologue. PP above has it right. Expectations are constantly contradictory and the result is that some women at some times feel that whatever choice they make, it's going to be the wrong one to someone. If you've never had that experience, never felt the contradictions in expectations for you as a woman, well, you are fortunate indeed.

I'm wondering now how old the women are who are blasting the monologue and saying, almost with a shrug, that they haven't experienced those things and their lives are good. My life is great, but I'm older than most on this board, I think, and in my career especially, I sure as hell encountered those contradictory expectations many times in many ways over the years. Maybe those of you who are younger --30s? 40s? -- haven't had that same experience. [/quote]

+1 I think the PP captured it well. I can choose to not care about those expectations, perfectly happy with my average life, not being skinny, have been a SAHM, WAHM, WOHM, etc. but still notice they exist. DH sees it too. I used to work Saturdays so he'd be out with our two toddlers every weekend and got so much "amazing dad!" comments that really annoyed him because it conveyed that male incompetence/disengagement is the expectation.

Obviously the "it's impossible to be a woman" opening is over-the-top but the meaning is that it is impossible for one person to meet all the contradictory social messages out there about what a is good woman. I think it is especially hard for some young women, raised to be people-pleasers to get to a point of feeling good enough as they are, with whatever choices make sense for them.[/quote]

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