Possibilities from my thesis on the embodied experience of postmenopause which I’m about to submit …
Maybe your ‘menopause anger’ is because, by the time you get to menopause, you’ve been dealing with decades of misogyny and by menopause you’ve had enough?
Maybe your ‘menopausal anger’ is because you’re tired of being a targeted market for products that are jumping on the menopause bandwagon?
Maybe your ‘menopause anxiety’ is because menopause reminds us that we are ageing and will die and our culture despises ageing and is terrified of death?
Maybe the tough stuff in menopause is because menopause is a bio-psycho-socio-cultural transition and change is often hard, especially when your society hates change?
Maybe menopause is hard work because it’s a reversion to infertility in a brutally pronatal culture that teaches us we are worthless if we are not fertile?
Maybe you don’t have to ‘do’ menopause brilliantly. Maybe it would be ok to BE however you are and find out who you are becoming in postmenopause?
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All that. I also think you’re old enough to speak your mind without fear or favour (hormonal changes contributing?) and so your relationship with men and the patriarchy in general changes. I wonder if it’s because you’re no longer at the mercy of child and family first hormones, as opposed to love and protectiveness… pure speculation by me, obvs, you’re the one who actually knows.
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I think we all know our own version, and that’s important.
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