Hello, and thank you so much for joining us once again. It is the Knightley Pleasures podcast. I am your host and the author of the brand new piece you're going to hear today, The Grey Knight. You can call me Daddy. You can call me Jack. You can call me what you want. Just keep on coming back.

Hi. So, we should probably just pull this Band-Aid off.

I decided that since there was no perfect time to come back or right time to just try and get back into things, that this would be a pretty good one, just in case there were any women out there feeling some rather intense emotions.

And before we get into the new piece, if you don't want to skip directly to it, I just wanted to offer some thoughts. I just wanted to offer, oh, let me get you a little bit

closer here. Apologies. I just wanted to offer some thoughts and some feelings that I had

before we get there. As somebody who had, let's say, a fairly strong reaction to a major world event, I understand all the concern and anxiety that somebody can feel, but that's where the understanding ends.

I know what I felt or what somebody could feel in relation to what I felt, but I don't know what you're feeling.

And I just want to assure you, no matter what that is, that it's probably pretty okay and normal, even if it's extreme.

And I wanted to assure you of that because you deserve some kind of self-sense of peace,

a semblance of even though things don't feel okay, I'm okay, I deserve good things. I deserve to feel all right every

once in a while. And I wanted to encourage you to feel that. I think women from the outside,

as somebody who only observes communication directed towards women from the outside, right?

I feel like women are often dissuaded from feeling their feelings.

I feel like women are often dissuaded from feeling at least their negative emotions and that

they're often told to suppress them.

If I had to give one piece of advice that society gave to women about feeling bad would

basically be, oh, don't princess, just have some ice cream. And this is definitely not, I mean,

maybe it is a time for ice cream for you.

Again, I don't know.

I'm not judging.

But that's probably not going to do it.

You know?

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