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Podcast: Problematic Women
Episode: We Know What a Woman Is. But What Does It Mean to Be a Strong Woman?
Description: It was 2017 and President Donald Trump had just arrived in the Oval Office. The Women’s March took to the streets of D.C. proclaiming a message of “strength,” but Sarah Stonestreet did not see empowerment, but anger. “The overarching message was [a] middle finger to the chauvinistic world,” Stonestreet says of the marchers, adding that the underlying theme appeared to be “pursue your own happiness, no matter the casualties.” With three daughters of her own, Stonestreet did not want the Women’s March to be telling her daughters, or women across America for that matter, wh...