Thanks for being interested in my podcast! It’s neat having someone interested in what I have to say.

The idea for this podcast evolved from one event: watching Bridget Jones’s Diary. I’ve seen the movie before, and I was watching it while my boyfriend was out of the house and I needed a movie that was going to make me laugh (plus I was feeling Colin Firth after watching What A Girl Wants, remember that movie? Cute movie, Amanda Bynes, all good things). 

Let’s go back a step

Last year during the pandemic I started a blog. The original intention for the blog was to promote living well, healthy eating, and healthy habits. I tried to create a new persona for myself, to live in a different way than I was. Without a better way to put it, I was trying to get my shit together almost by force. 

I was stressed, I hated writing the content for it, so I just let the blog sit untouched for months. The pressure I felt to maintain a “healthy” lifestyle to be authentic was too much. I wanted to be successful, but I wasn’t going to be if I wasn’t passionate about my niche. 

I thought about making a blog about sustainability and natural products, but I just want to do that rather than writing about it. Do I need to tell you to use less plastic? Is it really necessary for someone who just started focusing on this kind of stuff to remind you to bring your reusable bags with you when you go shopping? 

So yeah, that idea was out of the question. I just had to come to terms with the fact that it was too much pressure to become this person that I clearly was not.

Okay, back to Bridget Jones.

I watched the movie again and found myself relating to her as a character far more than I did the first time I saw it. I am way more like Bridget than I am the persona I was creating that was healthy all the time and always remembered their reusable bags that they bothered to spend money on but somehow still forget more often than they’d like to admit…

Then it clicked. This felt real to me, as if the idea of being a flawed human being was suddenly tangible. We’re living in a time where women are bombarded by images of “perfect” women who have their shit together. They’re beautiful, fit, eat healthy without trouble, and just seem to be better people overall. BUT that’s just what is shown on the outside. These same women who do have their shit together can also at the same time feel like everything is about to come apart. However, these women may not feel comfortable showing this because of the pressure of the online persona they have created. I am not at all here to judge, because as I mentioned before this is exactly what I was trying to accomplish! I WAS TRYING TO DO THIS AND DIDN’T REALIZE IT UNTIL BRIDGET JONES SHOWED ME IT’S OKAY TO BE AWKWARD.

Now, that’s not to say that we should emulate everything that she does, the whole point is that she’s flawed. We should always want to better ourselves, even in just the smallest of ways, but it’s KEY to know that nothing in life is perfect, including yourself. In that same line of thinking, it’s crucial to have fully realized female characters in literature and media to prove to women everywhere that you don’t have to show only one side of yourself for people to like you. Your outward personality doesn’t have to be 2-dimensional because you’re worried that you’re weird, or that you’re going to say something wrong, or that people aren’t going to like you. 

I want to highlight female characters who give me a sense that they are a fully realized person who is flawed and wonderful. This podcast that I’m creating is dedicated to highlighting women, and showing that being a woman doesn’t mean you have to fall into a specific category that has been molded for us. Being a woman is just straight up being a person, with different genitals. 

I went to school for psychology and am now studying sociology, so I’m hoping to really dive deep into pop culture female characters that we love, hate, or maybe love to hate. 

Half of my podcast is going to be me reading from a diary of a character that I have created. This fictionalized character is reminiscent of Bridget Jones, and she is there for comedic purposes only. Do not strive to be like this woman, but take comfort in the fact that she clearly has not got her shit together. The other half is going to be the analysis of female characters. I’ll include some behind-the-scenes stuff for extra content maybe, who knows. I’ll start simple and work my way up. 

I’m looking forward to talking into the void until someone starts listening because I’m way too self-conscious to share this with my friends. I just can’t muster the courage to be honest, crippling social anxiety and all. 

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