Ladies Don't Get Pushed Into Poverty. They Get Kept There by Design.

Ladies Don't Get Pushed Into Poverty. They Get Kept There by Design.

Women in the United States could not open a bank account without a man's permission until 1974. They could be denied credit for being female. They could be fired for getting pregnant. And the things we know actually support women financially, education, independent income, access to credit, the ability to leave, are exactly the things women have been guided, pressured, and sometimes forced away from for generations. In this episode I get into why women are not falling into poverty. They are being kept in the conditions that guarantee it. What those conditions look like, how they get dressed up as love and protection, and why refusing to stay is still considered the unladylike choice. The last thing you need is one more reason to stay small. Know the system. Name it. And that's the most unladylike thing of all. Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/break-it-down [https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/break-it-down] License code: 1S4TI94HJFOHIGSH If you are interested in That Hormone Girl information, visit my everything page: https://www.thathormonegirl.com/thg-hq [https://www.thathormonegirl.com/thg-hq]

Ladies Don't Post Without Filtering First. They Edit the Evidence of Being Human.

In this episode of That's Not Very Ladylike, here's the deal: no matter what you post, someone has an opinion. Too much. Too personal. Too polished. Too raw. Too much for a woman your age. Too messy for someone who has a brand. You are going to be judged either way, so who exactly are you editing for when you sand yourself down into something safe enough to publish? In this episode I get into why we learned to filter before we post, what it costs us when our social media becomes one more place we perform acceptable womanhood, and why the version of you that didn't make the final cut is probably the one people actually need to see. The last thing you need is one more place to disappear. Post for you. Let them deal with it. Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/break-it-down [https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/break-it-down] License code: 1S4TI94HJFOHIGSH If you are interested in That Hormone Girl information, visit my everything page [https://www.thathormonegirl.com/thg-hq]!

Ladies Don't Dress for Themselves. They Dress to Not Be Noticed.

In this episode of That's Not Very Ladylike, here's the deal: no matter what you wear, someone has an opinion. Too much. Too little. Too try-hard. Too I-gave-up. Too sexy for a woman your age. Too frumpy for someone who used to care. You are going to be judged either way, so who exactly are you dressing for when you shrink yourself into something inoffensive? In this episode I get into why we learned to dress not to be noticed, what it costs us when our wardrobe becomes one more place we perform acceptable womanhood, and why the clothes that make you feel most like yourself are worth wearing even if somebody somewhere finds them inconvenient.  The last thing you need is one more way to disappear. Dress for you. Let them deal with it. Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/break-it-down [https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/break-it-down] License code: 1S4TI94HJFOHIGSH If you are interested in That Hormone Girl information, visit my everything page [https://www.thathormonegirl.com/thg-hq]!

Ladies Don't Resent Caregiving. They Were Born For It.

In this episode of That's Not Very Ladylike, here's a fun little lie we've all been sold: that good women are just born for caregiving. That we step into it naturally, give endlessly, and never once wish we were anywhere else. Meanwhile she's crying in a parking lot, googling whether it makes her a terrible person to want her old life back. So which is it?  In this episode I get into what's actually going on: why that resentment is information and not a character flaw, why the thing you keep calling guilt is almost always regret wearing a disguise, and how the chronic stress of caregiving keeps cortisol cranked, sleep wrecked, and your hormones in open revolt. It's not that you don't love them. It's that nobody ever told you what loving them this hard was allowed to cost. Let's talk about it. Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/break-it-down License code: 1S4TI94HJFOHIGSH If you are interested in That Hormone Girl information, visit my everything page [https://www.thathormonegirl.com/thg-hq]!

Ladies Don't Cause a Scene. They Apologize for Other People's Behavior.

In this episode of That's Not Very Ladylike, here's a fun little lie we've all been sold: that a good woman keeps the peace. She smooths it over, she doesn't make it weird, and she absolutely does not cause a scene. Meanwhile she's apologizing to the guy who bumped into her, cleaning up a comment that was never hers to clean up, saying sorry so many times a day she's stopped hearing herself do it. So which is it? In this episode I get into what's actually going on: how girls get trained to manage everyone else's feelings as a full-time job, why that reflexive sorry is a nervous system stuck in appease mode and not actually politeness, and what it quietly costs your body to swallow your own reactions for years so nobody around you has to feel one second of discomfort. It's not that you're so easygoing. It's that somewhere along the way you learned keeping the peace was safer than taking up space. Let's talk about it. Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/break-it-down License code: 1S4TI94HJFOHIGSH If you are interested in That Hormone Girl information, visit my everything page [https://www.thathormonegirl.com/thg-hq]!