Emily Ratajkowski is doing a balancing act many famously stunning girls must carry out. In her 2021 guide “My Physique,” she displays on what it’s been prefer to construct a profession primarily based on her public picture, and her battle to regulate that picture in an trade largely run by males. Since getting divorced a number of years in the past, she’s been pondering so much about gender dynamics and the kind of company she desires to have in courting, too.
Right this moment, Ratajkowski reads “Why I Fell for an ‘I’m the Man’ Man,” by Susan Forray. Forray can be a profitable, self-sufficient lady, courting after divorce. She’s shocked to search out herself falling for a person with old school concepts about who does what in a relationship. (He pays for dinner, handles the funds and initiates intercourse). As a single mother who handles every little thing, Ratajkowski says, she will be able to relate to the will to be cared for infrequently. And that doesn’t must imply enjoying right into a sexist stereotype.
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