The Power of Female Friends
“Some people go to priests. Others to poetry. I to my friends.” — Virginia Woolf
The women in my life are incredible.
We don’t hear that enough. People love a story that highlights the negative. Mean girl culture makes the news. Competitive parenting reigns on the sports fields.
Magazine covers, red carpets and reality TV all exhibit plastic standards of beauty. We inadvertantly find ourselves in a manufactured competition with one another, held to impossible standards we can never achieve. All in some manufactured competition with one another.
“Mother Teresa didn’t walk around complaining about her thighs — she had shit to do.”
~Sarah Silverman
If you take away the superficial nonsense, we can have a real conversation as women sharing a common experience. In 2018, the #MeToo movement provided a moment where women could relate to one other. Our different backgrounds didn’t matter because all we had to say was, yes, I get it.
The really dirty secret exposed by #MeToo was that we had no idea the prevalence of sexual harassment and sexual abuse. We knew what we had personally experienced but we had virtually no idea that we were…
