I saw Shefali Tsabary interviewed on Marie Shriver’s YouTube channel. You can check it out here. She had a lot of wisdom that seemed to resonate with my soul, so I found her book on Audible. I recently signed up and I get 1 credit a month. She was the second book I purchased.
What I love about this book is how Tsabary is not male bashing, she explains that women and men are conditioned to believe certain things about their gender that are not true. Things that are toxic. These things are that males are not allowed to cry or show emotions, they must be stoic, controlled, and so strong that they are not allowed to show they are in pain. That sometimes women put these demands on them. This made me think about my own relationships with the men in my life and what I expected the to behave like. Did I in fact not allow them to be human beings and to show that they are weak? Or did I demand that they be strong and perfect and not allowed to be weak? Being a feminist means accepting that we women can be toxic in how what we expect and demand from ourselves and the men in our lives. This made me respect Tsabary even more.
There is so much more to this book than what I wrote above. This is one of many things that made me think. I enjoyed listening to this book on those nights when sleep did not show up and I did not want to turn the lights on to read an actual book. Listening to an audible book on my Kindle helped me relax and allowed me to get my mind off my physical pain.
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