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June 10, 2025 59 mins

A chat about coming of age in a man’s world. As Rebecca Solnit says, “It gets you even if it doesn’t get you. You have to think every day of your life as a girl and a young woman, if I wear this what will happen? If I go out, what will happen?” and girls and women are getting the message that “this is not your world, this is not your street, this is not your city, this is not your adventure, you are not the protagonist.”

In this hour, Elle and Natalie reflect on growing up female, and unpack the conditioning all girls and women are subjected to.

EPISODE LINKS

Rebecca's English Hub |Tik Tok

Science of Smiling | National Library of Medicine 

Lake Bell Interview | CBS Mornings

Why Some Grown Women Sound Like Girls | Psychology Today

In A World | Lake Bell

Inside Voice | Lake Bell

Untamed | Glennon Doyle

The Gift of Fear | Gavin de Becker

Men Hazing Girls & Women | Rebecca Solnit

Men Explain Things to Me | Rebecca Solnit

The Hero’s Journey | Joseph Campbell

The Heroine’s Journey | Maureen Murdoch

Twelve Feminist Lessons of War | Cynthia Enloe

Cynthia Enloe Interview | Subject To Power

Women’s War Stories | Sonora Jha

I’m Gonna Be an Engineer | Peggy Seeger

CONTACT

Website:  www.chatinthecommons.com

Instagram: @chatinthecommons

X: @ChatInCommons

Email:  https://www.chatinthecommons.com/contact 

CREDITS

Hosted by Natalie Blundell and Elle Kamihira

Produced by Natalie Blundell and Elle Kamihira

Edited by Elle Kamihira

Audio Engineering by Jason Sheesley at Abridged Audio

Cover Art by Reda Tomingas

Music by Moushumi

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