In my social and work circles I am surrounded by single women in their mid twenties to late thirties and the one thing they all have in common is that they worry about not having met a partner. Not being in a relationship and what this means if they want kids. When I sit and talk with them about it, I can feel their anxiety and pain.
What's wrong with me? they say. Why can't I meet anyone?
I don't know how to answer them. Because sitting in front of me is an intelligent, accomplished, beautiful, funny, down-to-earth woman.
Don't worry about it I eventually mumble, It'll happen.
But inside me is rage and anger. Why do my friends have to feel this way? Why do they denigrate themselves because of it?
Where does this pressure come from? Biology? Society? The Joneses?
My husband and I had a debate recently about this very issue. He said the pressure came from other women.
Well not from me it doesn't I replied.
But I take his point. What women wear. What women do. What women want. It's the sisterhood that is kicking us up the bum. In our strive to be superwomen, we set an impossibly high standard for all of us. We'll end us killing ourselves if not each other.
C'mon ladies. Let's just hang out. Like we used to.
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Maybe women could learn something from female gorillas. They hang out in groups and when they're feeling broody they kick the silverback up the bum.
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