Women Are Running Everything
With or Without Your Permission
Tyler says something that makes me laugh every single time: “I truly do not understand why every woman on earth isn’t a lesbian.”
And I’m like, “I know, babe. We wish we were. Some of us were just born straight. We can’t help it.”
His follow up is always this: “Women are just better.”
He watches women. He watches how we move through the world. He sees who actually organizes the chaos, holds the emotional center, remembers the birthdays, schedules the appointments, coordinates the childcare, builds the group text, launches the fundraiser, reads the room, plans the protest, feeds the neighborhood, keeps the calendar, makes the spreadsheet, and still somehow checks on everyone’s feelings before bed.
And he’s not wrong.
Women are running the world.
We always have been.
We’ve been the engine under the hood, the system behind the system. Women have always been the quiet infrastructure that keeps families, churches, schools, movements, and entire cities functioning. Often without credit. Frequently without rest. Almost always without applause.
Lately? We’re not doing it quietly anymore.
I’ve been watching what women are doing — in Minneapolis, in book clubs, in neighborhoods, in resistance spaces, in small groups, in Congress, in private text threads, in pulpits— and it’s extraordinary. Not perfect or polished or always “calm” like men prefer our tone. But coordinated and compassionate, clever and courageous. Women are bringing a moral clarity right now the history books will write about.
And here’s what no one is saying out loud…