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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You’ve never experienced any of this, OP? I mean, ever Taylor Swift, who is much younger than me, talks about a lot of this in the song “The Man”.

Spent a few hours around the relationships, family relationships, and parenting boards, not even to get into the diet and fitness boards to see how women feel about their bodies due to media and societal pressure. Women who are scared to take full maternity leaves, women who even question Capri pants. C’mon.

Sorry, but a few hours driving on DCUM is the explanation for this monologue, if you have any awareness. [/quote]

Aren’t we always told that social media isn’t real life?

I agree with OP. I am a 43 year old woman. I haven’t felt pressure like what’s described since middle school. After which I decided to do my own thing, as most reasonably secure and self-aware people hopefully do. I’ve never been beautiful enough to be vain. I’ve always worked hard and excelled. I don’t apologize for my family or work choices and I DGAF if you think I’m a monster for sending my kids to day care while I worked. I took 6 months unpaid maternity leave with each kid that I unplanned and saved for and it didn’t hurt my career at all. In fact I got promoted to the highest position I can reach at my workplace, while 6 months pregnant with kid #2. I’ve never been sexually harassed at work. And I have worked in all-male workplaces. I’ve also had terrific female bosses. I’m a religious minority but I haven’t experienced discrimination at work either.

I know there are women who have experienced all these things and I am sorry for it, but it’s not universal. And it is certainly not “literally” impossible to be a woman in America since, you know, many of us are females and alive.

You know where it sucks to be a working woman with a family? Japan. They’ve been stuck in the 60s since before the 60s. I lived and worked there for a few years and it’s exactly what my mother described of her life in the 60s and 70s where her employer tried to fire her when she got pregnant, her doctor threatened to spank her because she kept her maiden name when she married, and she couldn’t get a car loan in her own name when married even though all the income was hers (my dad was in grad school). If Barbie wants to write a screed about that, I’m all in. Modern expectations and barriers don’t remotely compare to what women experienced a generation ago. [/quote]

+1. I am a very imperfect woman but am overall fine with it, as are my beloved husband, parents, and children (the only people whose opinions I care about). And the lyrics of “The Man” are 100% accurate but it is also 100% accurate to say that men have to live up to some ridiculously high standards too (athleticism, masculinity, income, etc.). In this day and age and society, I do not see women as more downtrodden and men. If they have built a cage of ridiculously high standards for themselves, they need to stop engaging with whoever is influencing them.[/quote]

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