Meaghan Furlano

Thank you for having me.

Oh, 100%.

Although it's been a long crisis.

The word crisis almost implies that something has just come up suddenly.

But in my article, I try to show that actually this has been around for a really, really long time.

This is something that women have long been really frustrated and emotionally drained and depleted by.

Oh, completely.

And I came across the quote that starts off this article.

I was reading a book published in 1989.

And this quote that was in it, this quote comes from a book that was published in 84.

And yet the quote basically talking about how I feel like it's so much so much work to manage a relationship with a man because I'm the one doing all like I'm his therapist, I'm his cheerleader and I'm getting none of that back.

You know, that was that seems that quote seems like it could have been published somewhere in 2025 or 2026.

That's a 42 year difference.

So it's quite shocking that the attitude is exactly the same.

Mankeeping, heteropessimism.

These are all new words for very old things.

Yeah, well, it's interesting.

You have really two quite different responses.

You have people like

like the trad wives on social media, if you're familiar with them, these traditional wives, women influencers who promote traditional gender roles.