Ryan Tubridy

So a thing that keeps coming up in our chat to particularly female guests on the show is that a lot of the mothers of the guests who would have been peak of their life in the 60s and 70s couldn't go to college, didn't go to college, it wasn't the done thing and so forth.

And I always posit the idea that we might have lost generations of really great minds because women were precluded from that opportunity.

Equally, do you think that if the education was there and the conversation was had much further ago, we would have less women in the shadows and less lost culturally, physically and ultimately intellectually?

There's also the conversation with men in the sense that you described in vivid detail the pelvic floor and the effect.

That's a war zone in the body.

I have to admit my ignorance on this, right?

Because even though it's unforgivable, I really have sisters, I have a partner, I have daughters, I have a mother.

Probably the most important people in my life are women.

I just am so ignorant on it.

And, you know, I'm trying to blame society rather than myself for lacking curiosity.

But for me, you'd hear menopause, hot flushes, mood swings.

And that's all I probably know much about the menopause and say it sounds pretty horrible.

Because women seem to physically have got mother nature didn't like women, I think, because every...

You know, the kitchen sink is thrown at you.

I would urge them to.

I'd go myself.

But I have no issue.

This does not, this conversation, not this, our conversation, but what you're doing, Viva La Vulva.

I mean, that's just brilliant, by the way.

But that is important.