One of the issues I hear most in my work with twenty-somethings (and women in general) is, “I don’t have a boyfriend/husband.” Whether or not this is said out loud isn’t the issue, it is evident. Women across the board are told by our culture that we need a man to be complete. Recently, this is most evident by the latest Taylor Swift song to climb the charts: Love Story. I watched the video today and I got a huge knot in my stomach. So many people are in love with this song, so it’s very risky for me to write this – I don’t like this song, even though it's catchy. This blog comes at the end of a week where I saw women come into freedom. I saw women break out of the boxes that they had put themselves in. I want to go back to that place and create more places like that. But here is the reality… every day on my way to work, this song is played:
Romeo take me somewhere we can be alone, I’ll be waiting… Romeo save me.
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