HeyJaredLIFE'S HARD
Living through 30s as a woman: Fertility, dating, friendships, places, feeling lost - I talk about it every Thursday.
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The Female Overwhelm (opens the original)
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The Invisible Heart Break (Club) (opens the original)
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It is the Saturday of one of those weekends that is rather too hot, and in fact the whole summer has been too hot, and my thoughts do the thing they always do now, wandering off towards the earth heating up and the fact that it is already heated up, and then on that particular day I decide, quite deliberately, to push all of that away. We are standing in a crowd moving to the beat of a DJ playing in the middle of some trees, on a beautifully curated dance floor, and there is dust in the air that
Why Is Everything Whimsical Now? (opens the original)
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I noticed it first in a friend’s kitchen, where a perfectly reasonable adult woman had started collecting little ceramic mushrooms. And then I noticed it in my own online browsing - in the way I found myself drawn to a lamp shaped like a mushroom that I do not need and cannot justify, and then I started noticing it everywhere: the ruffles and the bows and the butter yellow, the mismatched plates, the wobbly candles, the general and unmistakable sense that a large number of people have collective
Things That Actually Get Better With Age (opens the original)
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I spend a lot of time on being angry about the things that get worse for women over time: the pay, the pensions, the way the world slowly stops looking at you. So I went looking for the opposite: the things that get better. Not in a candles-and-affirmations way, but actual and measurable things. The list turned out to be longer than I expected, and I’ll admit some of it surprised me:1. Pleasure: Let’s start where nobody expects a list like this to start: There’s a much-quoted claim that the clit
Did Feminism Ruin It For Me? (opens the original)
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Not sure if feminism ‘ruined’ it for me but this week I got really mad, angry actually, about how unfair our society, norms, structures, laws, you name it, is towards women. The older I get, the more I see how unequal our world still is.In fact, no country in the world has reached gender equality. And neither have any of the couples and workplaces I know. Even the most progressive women around me don’t truly live equality with their male partners. It’s not even their fault, you cannot change you
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