Apr 21, 2021
6 min read
How I Tore Down the Lie that I Favoured Male Friendships
Exhuming internalized misogyny takes a lifetime
One of my lesbian friends said something the other day that coalesced a swirling cloud of amorphous thoughts that have long hung around my head. Why did I so strongly self-identify from early adolescence well into my late 20s as the kind of woman who preferred the friendship of men?
