Too Much and Never Enough: Why Women are Expected to Dim Their Light to Make Others Comfortable

Margo and Tashira discuss the paradox of being “too much” in a number of ways seemingly exclusive to women & femmes.

Society tells us that we need to be pretty (but we can’t be too focused on our appearance), we need to be smart (but not too smart), we need to be good parents, but if we put “too much” effort into them then we’re “too involved.”

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