My husband is a truly amazing man, with a huge heart and an incredible brain. He tries to read up on different subjects and learn about people with struggles and people with problems to understand.
My words are not able to explain being a woman. I can tell him something dozens of times, but he needs to read it from a different person, I think. He’s a feminist, but I’d like him to know how hard things really are.
I want him to know how hard we work at home and all we do to keep lives running. How exhausting being a family manager is. How doctors don’t believe us, how we are brushed aside, how sexual assault isn’t taken seriously. About how overloaded our brains are. How much we take on. Fightin tooth and nail and shedding blood for every footstep in male dominated places in life. How we’re by default the person expected to do the chores. The mental and emotional load. Why we snap and why we cry and how we need our partner. Why we get mad and break. How we need love.
We don’t have kids, so I’m not worried about that aspect. I just want books that truly reflect our lives and show the truth.
by SummerOfMayhem
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I can’t recommend something that covers all subjects pertaining to being a woman- but Know My Name hits the abuse mark hard.
I wish more men would read it.