10 Of The Worst Pieces Of Advice Women Are Given | Mid Week Tease
About this episode
Adelle discusses the ten worst pieces of advice given to women and their implications in a patriarchal society.
This week on The Mid Week Tease, Adelle is looking at 10 of the worst pieces of advice women are given, in her opinion. From being told to reduce your financial ambitions so you don’t intimidate a man, to submitting for the sake of peace, enduring because “marriage is hard,” putting your career second, maintaining your appearance so a man doesn’t cheat, and being told that ultimately, every woman needs a man. Some of this advice is so familiar that we rarely stop to ask where it came from or who it actually benefits. In this episode, Adelle explores how much of the advice women inherit about love, marriage, motherhood, money and ambition can quietly ask us to shrink, serve, endure and perform in order to fit comfortably into patriarchal expectations. We get into: Why women are still encouraged to make themselves smaller so men don’t feel intimidated. The difference between respect and submission in relationships. Why “keep your marriage private” can sometimes become dangerous advice. How “men are just like that” shifts responsibility from men onto women. The invisible labour hidden inside the idea that women are “the heart of the home.” Why female endurance is so often…
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