Episode 20: "If I Were a Man" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

With Rachael · May 27, 2026 · 16m

Charlotte Perkins Gilman gave us “The Yellow Wallpaper”, and now she’s back with a different story. Mollie Mathewson wishes she were a man. Almost immediately after she makes that wish, she gets transported into her husband’s mind. In that mind he quickly forgets why they had a little argument, and runs to catch the train. As the men on the train are chatting, the train is moving, and she finds that a mans thoughts are a lot different than she’s always believed - not in a bad way, but a different way.

As she lives further in further in her husband’s head she realizes how much she doesn’t know…