
You May Be Feeling
Short essays exploring how you may be feeling these days.
Not so much what to do about those feelings.
But hopefully how to avoid the second arrow of judging them.
Season 2: The Mothering (Rational Tantrums)
Episodes released every Sunday (well, 3 out of 4).
You May Be Feeling
Ep. 9: What Growing Boys and Aging Women Need
I ruminate quite a bit over our hyper-digitized lives. But I also think a lot about gender. I can’t help it. I’m a 48-year-old woman, a separated mother of two boys, ages 11 and 8. And I’ve joked before that if you tried to draw a Venn diagram illustrating the overlapping interests of middle-aged women and school-aged boys, you wouldn’t have a Venn diagram.
But I’ve come to see a connection my boys and I share through a basic aspect of being who we are in the world that we’re in: it’s a lack of representation, of positive images of what it can look like and mean to grow up in their case, and to age in mine.