Why I won’t shut up about menopause
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- 03 Feb 2023
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There’s a fear that highlighting menopause will undermine women, especially at work. But what have centuries of secrecy achieved for us?
Are you sick of hearing about menopause?
Kim Hill is. The living legend of Aotearoa broadcasting told actor Robyn Malcolm (also a legend) on her Saturday Morning show on RNZ that she feels “like menopause has gone from the condition that cannot speak its name to the condition that won’t shut up. It’s everywhere.”
She went on: “I have this proposition to make: that women are spending, have spent, will continue to spend, a lot of time and effort proving that they are up for it and as good as, if not better than; and we’re making special pleading because we feel so bad during menopause. I have trouble with that.
“I feel a bit queasy about saying ‘once a month we feel terrible. And when we get to 50-something, we feel even worse, because we’re women’ … We’re saying we’re dysfunctional a lot of the time as a consequence of our biology.” Read More…
