Wendy Noggle

What you're about to hear might sound like a joke at first, but for millions of women, it landed more like a truth bomb.

That's Melanie Sanders, the creator of the We Do Not Care Club.

Hello and welcome to USA Today's The Excerpt.

I'm Wendy Noggle, USA Today Executive Editor of Entertainment.

What started as a meme has exploded into a cultural moment.

We Do Not Care has become a rallying cry for visibility, for setting boundaries, and for rejecting expectations women, specifically perimenopausal and menopausal women, are told to quietly carry.

Melanie's new book, the official We Do Not Care Club Handbook, is in bookstores now.

Melanie, we're excited to have you here today on The Excerpt.

I wanted to start off, you're the mother of three boys.

Most of them are grown, so they know what's happening on social media right now.

How are they reacting to this phenomenon that you created and seeing their mom out there in this way?

And your videos have become so much more than social media posts.

They really are this rallying cry across zip codes, across demographics.

How do you see the We Do Not Care Club impacting conversations beyond social media when you're talking to so many women?

And when you've talked to women across the country, what stories have impacted you the most?

I mean, you've gotten this incredible outpouring of feedback.

How has that changed you in your life?

I was watching the Golden Globes and there was a moment that really made me think of you.

Chloe Zhao was accepting her award for Hamnet and she referenced a conversation she had had with her star, Paul Mescal.

And there was something that he told her that really resonated with me.