Duchess Meghan (41) spoke in the latest episode of her Spotify podcast “Archetypes” about the fact that women are often pilloried for their “sensuality” and “sexuality”. For the episode, Prince Harry’s (38) wife visited her former high school in Los Angeles and spoke to actress Michaela Jaé Rodriguez (31) and “Sex and the City” author Candace Bushnell (63).
Bushnell reportedly said on the podcast about female sexuality, “You know, I wrote for women’s magazines in the ’80s. I wrote a lot about relationships and sex, and I really analyze it.” According to the author, it analyzes “why we behave the way we do”. She grew up in the 1960s, when women were told how their sexuality should be: women should “only want to have sex with one person” for the rest of their lives, the 63-year-old explained. She added, “And the women I know just weren’t like that.”
With actress Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, who campaigns for trans people’s rights, Meghan also spoke about “one of the things that all women face”: As women get older, according to the Duchess, and they express their “sensuality” and exploring and understanding her “sexuality” can often be used very strongly against her, said the 41-year-old. A man is often celebrated when he is “having fun”. But with a woman, “regardless of whether she’s in her mid-50s and maybe the most successful woman in finance,” the Duchess continued, “I promise you, there will always be someone who says, ‘Yeah, but she was such a bitch in college.'”
Rodriguez then shared his own experience. She posted a picture of herself on Instagram in a see-through top, “I freed the nipple.” She felt liberated “not just to show myself, but to feel artistic and creative because I know this is my body and not someone else’s,” she recalled. While she was celebrated in the comments by many women for the picture, many men became personal, Rodriguez continued. “It’s always a projection,” Meghan said of such hate messages. “Oh, it always says so much more about the other person than it does about you.”
