I’m really trying to find the right words to convey how deeply this discussion has impacted me. I had to watch it in 2 parts because I couldn’t rap my head around all this emotion welling up inside of me. I’m 2nd generation Italian-American and grew up in a house with women. Even though my grandfather- a kind and loving man was there until I was 13 ( he had been orphaned as a boy in Italy after his mother had been murdered at the hands of her own father because she had a relationship with a man after her husband had left her and her 3 small children and gone to America). My grandmother ran the show- she could read and write in English. She too had been raised by her mother who was pregnant with her 10th child when her husband ( my great- grandfather)died of alcoholism. My own mother raised me alone without any support from my father and would say to me “we don’t need a man” and “ I should have been born a man” and “Mary, live your life like a man”! My mom told me about Smith College from the time I was a little girl- I never questioned it. Years later, after I had graduated she told me a story about my father trying to demean her in a fight and screaming at her”who do you think you are? You’re just a little Italian girl from Brooklyn- you didn’t even finish high school! It’s not like YOU went to a place like Smith” it’s only now, after a lifetime that I’m able to truly see it all - the matriarchy that tried! I now have 2 daughters of my own and even though I have stayed married- not wanting history to repeat itself in many ways I have raised them alone too. My mom is 83 now and after watching this I said to her ( a minute ago) “you thought you had to be a man but all you had to be was your self- a STRONG WOMAN. Thanks so much Exulansic for your content- it means so much to me❤️
The monk who never saw a woman, his mother died giving birth to him. Thats how he was able to never see a woman. He killed his mother and is celebrated
I didn't realize how badly I needed this conversation. With the ratchting up of the dehumanization of women, this was a perfect discussion.
I’m really trying to find the right words to convey how deeply this discussion has impacted me. I had to watch it in 2 parts because I couldn’t rap my head around all this emotion welling up inside of me. I’m 2nd generation Italian-American and grew up in a house with women. Even though my grandfather- a kind and loving man was there until I was 13 ( he had been orphaned as a boy in Italy after his mother had been murdered at the hands of her own father because she had a relationship with a man after her husband had left her and her 3 small children and gone to America). My grandmother ran the show- she could read and write in English. She too had been raised by her mother who was pregnant with her 10th child when her husband ( my great- grandfather)died of alcoholism. My own mother raised me alone without any support from my father and would say to me “we don’t need a man” and “ I should have been born a man” and “Mary, live your life like a man”! My mom told me about Smith College from the time I was a little girl- I never questioned it. Years later, after I had graduated she told me a story about my father trying to demean her in a fight and screaming at her”who do you think you are? You’re just a little Italian girl from Brooklyn- you didn’t even finish high school! It’s not like YOU went to a place like Smith” it’s only now, after a lifetime that I’m able to truly see it all - the matriarchy that tried! I now have 2 daughters of my own and even though I have stayed married- not wanting history to repeat itself in many ways I have raised them alone too. My mom is 83 now and after watching this I said to her ( a minute ago) “you thought you had to be a man but all you had to be was your self- a STRONG WOMAN. Thanks so much Exulansic for your content- it means so much to me❤️
The monk who never saw a woman, his mother died giving birth to him. Thats how he was able to never see a woman. He killed his mother and is celebrated