Barbara Scully

And we never use a proper noun because we can't remember the name of any person, place or thing.

So we talk about, you know, your woman down the road, she married to the little fat guy, they drive the red car.

She works in that big place over there.

We all know exactly what we're talking about and what we mean.

It's fine.

So as I say to my audience at my show, what is it?

It's an information retrieval slowdown, because by the time you get to 60 plus, your head is full of information.

I have way more information in my brain than my daughters have because I've just lived.

longer.

So I don't like the fact that we tell women only that they get brain fog.

And again, I'm old enough to remember the days when the accepted wisdom was you couldn't put a woman in a position of power because her brain goes one month in every four, one week in every four.

And so she'd make mad decisions and, you know, start wars and things really.

Yeah.

So stop with the brain fog thing.

I don't accept that for one second.

And the other thing I don't accept is mood swings.

Two things I never hear.

I never hear of a positive mood swing.

I never hear of anybody saying, geez, I had a mood swing yesterday.

It was fucking brilliant.