I, too, felt many similarities when I watched “Keep Sweet”. I was raised in high-control evangelicalism. I’m still working through it all. Thank you for encouraging the curious and vocal.
YES YES YES!!! Thank you for sharing. So many of us have this experience of being shrunk or quieted because of our gender. “When women refuse to shrink, coo, or melt into sugarcoated, bubbly caricatures, we aren’t merely being bold. We are dismantling the systems that tell us we can’t.”
Together we will learn to never shrink or change who we are and what we believe in to placate those who disagree with us. 💡 Book rec!! Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates. I read this book in my Women Lead in Business class in college and it was life changing.🥹
Just when I thought I couldn’t be any more impressed with your intelligence and your wit and your passion. As for the content, this post has made me realize how much more common this kind of culture is than I thought. It’s no longer reserved for “those weird, gullible people.” It’s being fed to us from the top down and now it’s all over the place. Thank you for increasing awareness in such a well-informed and highly readable way. (Without a trace of the baby voice)
Thank you, Nancy! The problem definitely has deeper roots than we think. In the spirit of commenting about women who inspire us—YOU have been one of mine since 2008!
I, too, felt many similarities when I watched “Keep Sweet”. I was raised in high-control evangelicalism. I’m still working through it all. Thank you for encouraging the curious and vocal.
YES YES YES!!! Thank you for sharing. So many of us have this experience of being shrunk or quieted because of our gender. “When women refuse to shrink, coo, or melt into sugarcoated, bubbly caricatures, we aren’t merely being bold. We are dismantling the systems that tell us we can’t.”
YOU are one woman who has inspired me since we were little high school freshmen! :)
Together we will learn to never shrink or change who we are and what we believe in to placate those who disagree with us. 💡 Book rec!! Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates. I read this book in my Women Lead in Business class in college and it was life changing.🥹
Just when I thought I couldn’t be any more impressed with your intelligence and your wit and your passion. As for the content, this post has made me realize how much more common this kind of culture is than I thought. It’s no longer reserved for “those weird, gullible people.” It’s being fed to us from the top down and now it’s all over the place. Thank you for increasing awareness in such a well-informed and highly readable way. (Without a trace of the baby voice)
Thank you, Nancy! The problem definitely has deeper roots than we think. In the spirit of commenting about women who inspire us—YOU have been one of mine since 2008!