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So I talk about in the book being pregnant and there's a f we had a flood in California and my brother and my brother-in-law from my first marriage and my husband and all these men that work on the farm just saving animals and saving the propane tanks from floating down and saving the tractors and moving and everything that needed to happen and how dangerous it was. | |
And you know, for a little while I'm out there pregnant and I ha I had a realization like what am I doing out here? | |
Like it's dangerous that I'm trying to control what's happening and run the show, and honestly, it's too dangerous for me and my pregnant baby to be out here. | |
I'm gonna go inside and make some beef stew and cornbread, so when the men come back, they have something to eat. | |
I got out uh I realized all these people are gonna have to sleep over because the road was washed out, so I went and found all my husband's like extra sweatpants and stuff for people to change into when they got in, and I got all that ready and made sure my kids were not afraid and I realized that in a moment of emergency, you don't want to be with just women and children. | |
You want there to be men. | |
And anybody that thinks like, oh, I don't need a man, you're just outsourcing men by paying for them because the building you're in was built by men, the electricity that you turned on was largely infrastructure put in by men, the roads, the everything, the foundation of our society was built on the backs of strong men. | |
And it's a disrespect to act like it's not necessary. | |
And we talk about toxic masculinity, we rarely talk about toxic femininity. | |
But there's also that and we need to find balance again and remember that we're divinely reflections of each other that are different and perfectly yoked. | |
We don't need to outcompete each other. |