The Same Drugs

The Same Drugs

What I learned on my man break

I took a man break over the past year, and now I don't know if I'll ever go back

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Meghan Murphy
Sep 22, 2024
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I’ve been writing about the way in which third wave feminism got almost everything wrong for well over a decade now, but the perhaps inconvenient lessons of female evolution eluded me until more recently. It turns out that going into relationships lust first is not quite as harmless as I long believed. This became glaringly obvious when I took what I called a “man break.”

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