Leela Corman 2,992 Report post Posted November 16 I've been taking classes online with Kasia Urbaniak, who runs a school for women called The Academy of Power. I love her!! I need to ask Michael about her. I first read about her here, and resonated immediately. https://www.thecut.com/2018/01/profile-kasia-urbaniak-founder-of-the-academy.html It's powerful stuff. 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wendy 3,234 Report post Posted November 17 "She calls the constant, inherently futile attempt to strike that impossible balance “leveling” — as in trying to get on the same level as everyone you talk to, relentlessly micro-calibrating. “My boobs are too small until they’re too big. I’m too quiet and too mousey until I’m too loud. I’m too serious until I’m too funny. I’m too studious until I’m a fucking failure,” she summarizes. In the language of the Academy, the collective state this generates for women is called “compression”: The competing “dom” and “sub” emotions push women from opposite directions, compressing the female psyche until, as Urbaniak puts it, “that tightrope is so narrow that a woman can hardly fucking breathe.” What it's like to be a woman in a nutshell. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
