I have a way with women - middle aged ones who actually admit there is something really really wrong. Those with children. My friends. I seek the wiser ones with kids. Those who will buy your books rather than be some bimbo (originally male term ,so not sexist). And paste a picture on their insta for self promotional virtue signalling nonsense without knowing what harm means, or life. They speak with me truthfully....
I roam among them a little Socratic ...
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Pity them. Because they are stuck.
They are so so so tried of your confected "victimhood"
because although you treat them as if they are pliant and stupid children, they figured something....it does not
work
And many do care about their children's future especially when they see half their kids' friends slitting their noses on whatever platform..... or worse, stuck and lost when mum is having a breakdown in the face of a sniffle rather than teach her kids chin up....smile they were created for a reason....
... yes share everything - good psych says no hangups, when one is ready... but do it with some grace its all just ...well ...phases... and the definition of moods is they do pass.
And as for Woman's Hour the best is the Christian wife very very nice lady few years ago- the archetypal English rose secure successful ordinary provincial bourgeois woman lives in a town of bullshit festivals at it happens,,, ... and i don't think i ever heard her express an opinion "i can't listen to it any more after all these years...moan moan moan olympics.... and its also as if menopause has only just been discovered.... never ever again.."
