Thank you so much for including me here--I’m truly honored. I was actually coming here this morning to say I heard you on NPR yesterday and I was like IT’S KATIE! :) I’m so glad you started this newsletter and I loved reading your year in review.
I'll give you a counter take on the Gloria speech. I hated it. I also hated the book Reviving Ophelia
Book by Mary Pipher when it came out, which basically blamed all the ills girls face on Cosmopolitan magazine. To me, this speech tells girls that they cannot win and I HATE that message. It's saying, no matter what, the chips are stacked against you because boo hoo it's so unfair. That is a message and a lesson I will NEVER EVER give to my daughter. Because that message set her up to play the victim and to blame others and circumstance and the outside world for her troubles. I love being a woman. I think being a woman is an advantage. I will never blame challenges I face on the fact that I am a woman. I will never tell my daughter that there is such a narrow path to happiness because she is a woman. What a sad way to raise a child.
Thank you for this. I know others who feel the same. I found that people either love or hate this speech. I didn’t take it as one of being the victim or that you can’t win. But rather an acknowledgement that it is hard and the expectations for women vs men are sometimes different. To me it was validation of how I feel sometimes, but not everyone has felt that way and that’s ok.
Thank you so much for including me here--I’m truly honored. I was actually coming here this morning to say I heard you on NPR yesterday and I was like IT’S KATIE! :) I’m so glad you started this newsletter and I loved reading your year in review.
I'll give you a counter take on the Gloria speech. I hated it. I also hated the book Reviving Ophelia
Book by Mary Pipher when it came out, which basically blamed all the ills girls face on Cosmopolitan magazine. To me, this speech tells girls that they cannot win and I HATE that message. It's saying, no matter what, the chips are stacked against you because boo hoo it's so unfair. That is a message and a lesson I will NEVER EVER give to my daughter. Because that message set her up to play the victim and to blame others and circumstance and the outside world for her troubles. I love being a woman. I think being a woman is an advantage. I will never blame challenges I face on the fact that I am a woman. I will never tell my daughter that there is such a narrow path to happiness because she is a woman. What a sad way to raise a child.
Thank you for this. I know others who feel the same. I found that people either love or hate this speech. I didn’t take it as one of being the victim or that you can’t win. But rather an acknowledgement that it is hard and the expectations for women vs men are sometimes different. To me it was validation of how I feel sometimes, but not everyone has felt that way and that’s ok.