In this episode of White Women Wake Up, Karen and Jonelle unpack the growing conversation around the “male loneliness epidemic” and ask a harder question: who is being asked to carry the emotional labor of fixing it? Moving past media narratives that frame men as victims and women as the solution, they explore how loneliness affects everyone and how patriarchy limits emotional literacy, especially for men. Drawing parallels to the exhaustion BIPOC women experience when asked to educate white ...
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In this episode of White Women Wake Up, Karen and Jonelle unpack the growing conversation around the “male loneliness epidemic” and ask a harder question: who is being asked to carry the emotional labor of fixing it? Moving past media narratives that frame men as victims and women as the solution, they explore how loneliness affects everyone and how patriarchy limits emotional literacy, especially for men. Drawing parallels to the exhaustion BIPOC women experience when asked to educate white ...
Hard conversations shape us—yet too often we avoid them, shut them down, or mistake venting for dialogue. Karen and Jonelle take a closer look at what really happens when conflict rises at the dinner table or online, from visceral reactions in the body to the cycle of rehearsed narratives that keep us stuck. They draw on both personal stories and research to show why silence is never neutral and why staying at the table matters. At the center of their conversation is the BRAVE framework: Brea...
White Women Wake Up
In this episode of White Women Wake Up, Karen and Jonelle unpack the growing conversation around the “male loneliness epidemic” and ask a harder question: who is being asked to carry the emotional labor of fixing it? Moving past media narratives that frame men as victims and women as the solution, they explore how loneliness affects everyone and how patriarchy limits emotional literacy, especially for men. Drawing parallels to the exhaustion BIPOC women experience when asked to educate white ...
