Welcome to In a Word, a newsletter that cultivates thoughtfulness, one word at a time. If a friend forwarded you this email, click here to subscribe: In John Mulaney’s 2018 stand-up special, he introduces a joke: “I never really knew what my body was for, besides carrying my head from room to room.” It’s probably easier for a man to view his body as negligible than it is for a woman, because our bodies are politicized, sexualized, criticized, idolized, and overlaid with morality regardless of what we think about them.
In a Word: Body
In a Word: Body
In a Word: Body
Welcome to In a Word, a newsletter that cultivates thoughtfulness, one word at a time. If a friend forwarded you this email, click here to subscribe: In John Mulaney’s 2018 stand-up special, he introduces a joke: “I never really knew what my body was for, besides carrying my head from room to room.” It’s probably easier for a man to view his body as negligible than it is for a woman, because our bodies are politicized, sexualized, criticized, idolized, and overlaid with morality regardless of what we think about them.