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Taboo Topic: A Summary
I am an Evolutionary Woman. My life is devoted to healing intergenerational trauma and supporting people who support women to create a world that protects the human rights of all.
This is a summary article based on eight articles called Taboo Topics. Let’s circle back to where we began.
First of all: What is a Taboo Topic? I define it as any topic where you feel you cannot talk about something because it is considered impolite, maybe vulnerable and embarrassing, and it makes people uncomfortable because it bumps up against the cultural conditioning of being a good girl.
Taboo is defined in the dictionary as “a social or religious custom prohibiting or forbidding discussion of a particular practice or forbidding association with a particular person, place, or thing.”
Watching the Taylor Swift documentary “Miss Americana,” I know I am witnessing a woman who is changing. She represents a generational shift that has been built by women fighting for women’s rights for the last 150 years. Rights that women in my generation fought for during the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s, up to the present, that were built on generations before us doing the same. It required women to speak up about taboo topics and take action.
1776: Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John Adams: “Remember the ladies and be more generous and…
