When I was 20 and got married, older women loved to try to scare me with stories of what it’s like to live with a man.
My marriage is wonderful 20 years later.
Through my 20s into my 30s, older women loved to try to predict when my baby fever would kick in and they’d tell me horror stories of motherhood.
We chose not to have kids and baby fever never hit me.
Now, I’m in my 40s and older women love to tell me about how I’m going to suffer through menopause. They gleefully recount hot flashes, the weight gain, how I’ll have to “work harder to be a woman”.
I’m not even perimenopausal. I’m only 41. I know about menopause. It’s not a secret.
Can women just let women age? This isn’t support. This is aggression in pink.
This is gaining traction, so I just want to add: this 10000000% includes trans people and non-binary people.
Actually, imma include cismen as well, because hearing this shit is damaging to the male psyche as well. Toxic masculinity can start by hearing women hate each other.
But, yeah. TERFS fuck off.
the way women talk about other women absolutely perpetuates toxic masculinity, shit I heard from the women in my family rotted my brain