In this bonus episode, Cynthia and Susan revisit part of an earlier discussion exploring the idea of Latter-day Saint women’s complicity in our own marginalization. Recent events have once again highlighted ways women may be the biggest obstacle to achieving greater parity of roles within the organization. It’s still an itchy topic with no easy answers. This conversation is a call for women to support other women as a necessary first step to change. The underlying question remains: if we can’t allow for—and sit with each other in—different experiences, can we truly love one another?
Notes & Quotes:
When Women Are The Problem, ALSSI podcast Ep. 117
The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World, by Sharon Brous
Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, by Kate Manne
Kate Manne: The Shock Collar That Is Misogyny, by Regan Penaluna, Guernica, 2/7/2018
The Family: A Proclamation to the World
“Misogyny should be understood as the ‘law enforcement’ branch of a patriarchal order, which has the overall function of policing and enforcing its governing ideology.” — Kate Manne
“Err on the side of presence.” — Rabbi Sharon Brous
“It’s not wishful thinking. It’s not assuming that things will turn out all right. It’s an insistence, looking at the world straight on as it is and rejecting the idea that it has to be that way, and then throwing your light and your pragmatism as much as your spirit at [that]. What does it look like if you don’t accept it? That’s how I think of it.”— Krista Tippet
“There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.” — Madeleine Albright
Cynthia’s 3 points for supporting other women:
Can you sit with and allow other women to feel differently without judgment?
Can you stay curious?
Can you celebrate diversity?
