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 ...
When Expectations Break Us — Acceptance, Grief, and Letting People Be Themselves
White Women Wake Up
33 minutes
1 month ago
When Expectations Break Us — Acceptance, Grief, and Letting People Be Themselves
In this episode, Karen and Jonelle dig into the uncomfortable truth behind accepting people as they are. What starts as a conversation about expectations quickly becomes something more personal: why we struggle to accept the real people in our lives and how much grief sits beneath that struggle. Karen introduces self-discrepancy theory by E. Tory Higgins—the gap between who we are, who we wish we were, and who we believe we ought to be—and how those inner narratives spill outward, shaping the...
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 ...
