There are many socio-political articles laden with statistics and analysis of the power of the patriarchy, about the history of women’s unpaid emotional and physical labour. But what I want to talk about here is despair - a profound sadness that crushes the soul.
It’s a despair that drowns, that says, ‘I’m getting older, and I just can’t do this anymore’, ‘I’m too tired’ and, increasingly, ‘I’m too angry’.
Relationships that have brought up children are floundering. Contempt has entered the scene.
