My mother is about the same age as Meghan Daum and I have to agree with her. I really feel my mum has had it better as a girl and a young women than me. Of course, she wasn't a lesbian so no homophobia, and she wasn't autistic or disabled which is maybe handled better nowadays ?
And as far as sexism goes, I feel it's actually worse for teenagers my generation and younger because of social media, porn and puberty beginning earlier. And the last bit isn't being talked enough in my opinion. My mother's mother had her periods at 16, my mother at 14, me at 11 (I was still such a child then) and my little sister is already starting puberty at 8 ! We are forced into becoming women physically -and facing the sexualisation that comes with it unfortunately - way before we're ready for it.
The environmental impacts on our bodies, our selves, hasn't been talked about enough, maybe it is not well researched...don't know but to go from 16 to 8 in 3 generations for pubertal onset is striking.
Maybe you've heard of Dora Moutot and Marguerite Stern in France ? They were two feminists who spoke up against tans ideology very publicly. They were relentlessly harrassed, threatened and cancelled by the feminist spheres and a big part of the left. Now they've gone far right - actual far-right, not just our equivalent of Conservatives. And I unfortunately hear more and more of stories, in France or abroad, of women who were feminists and are now joining the far-right because of trans ideology and shallow (and sometimes frankly inhinged) social media feminism.
As a feminist myself who is not buying in the whole "transwomen are women", "sex work is work", "cishet white men are the cause of all evil" and so on, it's a bit desparating. Even more so when I see self-proclaim online radical feminists becoming more and more intolerant and agressive, and rejecting all blames on others...
I am so happy you had Meghan on! I have loved her podcasts because she is obviously curious and baffled by current culture trends and how they have spread like wildfire. She is asking questions and trying to understand the roots of bizarre trends and behavior and where is this all going?? I binge listened to her last summer in between GWL!
Everyone from Poland who visits USA says that people in USA are shockingly friendly and start small talk in public. I’ve never been to USA, but these anecdotes don’t square with what I know about USA from sources like this episode
I agree, people are friendly in the US, but the difference from the 90s to the 2000s is huge. Foe example, you would ride a train and talk to people, or uncomfortably avoid them (!), now nearlyl that is phone faced. There just isn't the same environment of opportunity. I find myself telling my kids that we have to leave space for the possibility of a conversation, which was not a thing before smart phones.
Interesting! In Poland phones inserted themselves into places previously occupied by books and boredom, because small talk during train/bus/tram ride wasn’t the norm anyway. At the same time small talk still happens, because people who want to talk (including me) just ignore that you’re doing something.
My mother is about the same age as Meghan Daum and I have to agree with her. I really feel my mum has had it better as a girl and a young women than me. Of course, she wasn't a lesbian so no homophobia, and she wasn't autistic or disabled which is maybe handled better nowadays ?
And as far as sexism goes, I feel it's actually worse for teenagers my generation and younger because of social media, porn and puberty beginning earlier. And the last bit isn't being talked enough in my opinion. My mother's mother had her periods at 16, my mother at 14, me at 11 (I was still such a child then) and my little sister is already starting puberty at 8 ! We are forced into becoming women physically -and facing the sexualisation that comes with it unfortunately - way before we're ready for it.
The environmental impacts on our bodies, our selves, hasn't been talked about enough, maybe it is not well researched...don't know but to go from 16 to 8 in 3 generations for pubertal onset is striking.
Maybe you've heard of Dora Moutot and Marguerite Stern in France ? They were two feminists who spoke up against tans ideology very publicly. They were relentlessly harrassed, threatened and cancelled by the feminist spheres and a big part of the left. Now they've gone far right - actual far-right, not just our equivalent of Conservatives. And I unfortunately hear more and more of stories, in France or abroad, of women who were feminists and are now joining the far-right because of trans ideology and shallow (and sometimes frankly inhinged) social media feminism.
As a feminist myself who is not buying in the whole "transwomen are women", "sex work is work", "cishet white men are the cause of all evil" and so on, it's a bit desparating. Even more so when I see self-proclaim online radical feminists becoming more and more intolerant and agressive, and rejecting all blames on others...
I am so happy you had Meghan on! I have loved her podcasts because she is obviously curious and baffled by current culture trends and how they have spread like wildfire. She is asking questions and trying to understand the roots of bizarre trends and behavior and where is this all going?? I binge listened to her last summer in between GWL!
Everyone from Poland who visits USA says that people in USA are shockingly friendly and start small talk in public. I’ve never been to USA, but these anecdotes don’t square with what I know about USA from sources like this episode
I agree, people are friendly in the US, but the difference from the 90s to the 2000s is huge. Foe example, you would ride a train and talk to people, or uncomfortably avoid them (!), now nearlyl that is phone faced. There just isn't the same environment of opportunity. I find myself telling my kids that we have to leave space for the possibility of a conversation, which was not a thing before smart phones.
Interesting! In Poland phones inserted themselves into places previously occupied by books and boredom, because small talk during train/bus/tram ride wasn’t the norm anyway. At the same time small talk still happens, because people who want to talk (including me) just ignore that you’re doing something.