Welcome back, Witches! We are exhausted: personally, professionally, emotionally, all of the above!
The Wild Women are ready to enter the world's Rennaissance phase where we can all just sit around, eating fruit by the water with our tits out. The world needs a moment to take a huge, collective, deep breath, but we don't know when that is happening. Instead, we are still in the middle of a global pandemic AND on the brink of a world war.
Today Suzanne, Alex, and Nikole discuss toxic masculinity. We talk about how there is both toxic masculinity and toxic femininity – the tenents of which include socially maladaptive traits which are harmful to mental health. We discuss how women and men are both negatively affected by the patriarchy and "traditional gender roles," and how masculine and feminine energies are in all people and neither are gendered.
The ladies also dive into the definition of patriarchy – and YES, Suzanne does get a little wet as she read from the dictionary, but everyone handles trauma differently – and how patriarchy seems to be the root of all the human shit happening in the world right now.
The Women end up going deep on analyzing how the world has told you to act, whether that is good for you, and the fallacy that toxic masculinity puts on relationships to have 1 partner fulfil all of the other's needs.
This is not a light hearted episode, but it is a conversation that needs to happen.
Until next time, Stay Wild and Stay Witchy
You can find Liz Plank at @feministabulous