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Sam's avatar

Does Penelope have a hero that she looks up to? Who does she admire? Joan of Arc? Buddha? Che Guevara?

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Seth's avatar

I don’t know about being brought in … but if you’re looking for topics, I think I’ve mentioned this before … the plight of the generation of women who just missed out on the sexual revolution. My mom … born in 1937, married at 20, 3 kids by 35 … spent the 1960’s being a housewife and mother … woke up in the 1970’s wondering how she missed out on having the life she wanted. And never, really, coming to terms with that.

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JasonJHM44's avatar

Similar to Seth, I don’t know about being brought in, but keeping with the theme in the comments above, it would be interesting to hear more discussion about the state of women and men, and how they relate to one another. Men eschewing traditional gender roles is characterized as a crisis, while women doing the same is considered liberation. However, neither side is terribly happy with the results. I wonder if it’s best to educate young people on how men and women tend to be different (as opposed to pushing the blank slate myth) and describe the types of behaviors that are more likely to make the opposite sex happy, while supporting anyone regardless of the path they chose in life? No one should be judged by the degree to which they follow traditional gender roles, but it might help if young people understood the general facts on the ground relating to the opposite sex at a young age because, right now, there appears to be a very poor understanding.

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John Bingham's avatar

https://substack.com/@robkhenderson/note/c-112812869

Maybe take on this Rob Henderson point about how women are unwilling to approach men.

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