Hello and welcome to the Slow Home Podcast. This is the podcast all about slow living in a fast-paced world.

My name is Brooke McCallory and thank you very much for joining us.

Thank you very much for joining us. Indeed. My name is Ben McCallery and welcome to episode 182.

How do you do with 182? So tell me, what are we going to talk about on today's episode?

Well, I was part of a very interesting conversation on Twitter a couple of weeks ago that has,

it kind of tapped into thoughts that I've been having for a long time

and things that I'd noticed for a long time.

And as a result, I've really been, I guess, thinking deeply on the topic of this Twitter

thread that I was part of.

And it was essentially about gender and minimalism.

And particularly, I guess, the beginning of the thread was rooted in the idea that the vast

majority of popular or well-known minimalism writers are male and why that is.

And I thought it was a really interesting question because I

remember back in the day when I was first, I guess, exploring the idea of minimalism and I've

spoken at length many times about my thoughts on the label of minimalism and all the problems

that I think that it has and why I don't really use it anymore.

But back in the day, that's what I was reading a lot about. And I remember even then,

recognizing that there was definitely a trend towards most writers in minimalism being men.

And there were things about that that frustrated me because usually, at least until the minimalists came on the scene, they were

married men and they had a partner who helped with a lot of the day-to-day stuff. So they were

free. And look, I'm speaking in very broad brushstrokes here and not specific to one particular

person, but kind of free to deal with the higher level stuff.

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