Sara Hirsh Bordo
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 17 Jun
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Speaking up was always inconvenient.
It wasn't invited.
Conversely, I interviewed many middle and youngest daughters for this research and the book.
And they are operating on a completely different articulation system.
They don't have any problems speaking up.
Okay.
They don't care.
I'm picturing my little sister.
I think for so many of us that are in this good, nice caretaker category, the sense of value and worth is very much related to not who we were, but what we did.
What we offered, what we contributed, how dutiful we were.
And the youngest daughters that I interviewed, they have this deliciously free DNA strand, which it's like, yeah, we got to be little.
I mean, sometimes we were a little bit more free and loose than maybe would have been nice to have.
But they had a very wide berth of volition to be and feel free and little.
Like kids.
Like kids.
The only difference that I saw with that is there are
because of not just birth order, but the spans in between that a lot of youngest daughters can actually identify as the caretaker for their parents.
And in that world, that archetype is the same as the archetype I'm talking about in the eldest and the only.
It is this caretaker
archetype that is where the selflessness, the dutiful compulsion and sense of value and worth in my research is the most dangerous.
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