AOC and the Harsh Reality of Egg Freezing at 36

Over the weekend, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted a viral video to Instagram, sitting alone with a table of medication in front of her, talking followers through the first steps of her egg-freezing process. She was upfront about why she was sharing it, saying she hoped “to show more depictions of women having full lives in every context and every choice.”

The announcement was met with a firestorm—critics accusing her of putting career, and even an alleged presidential run, ahead of starting a family.

On the one hand, women are better off than ever before—58 percent of college students in the United States are women, and they are out-earning men in cities like New York and Washington, D.C. But on the other, a cultural reckoning is underway: The girlboss ethos of the 2010s is under scrutiny, as many wonder whether climbing the corporate ladder is really better than starting a family.

Today I have sex researcher Dr. Debra Soh on to explain it all. What are women getting right—and wrong—in dating? Why are women putting off motherhood? Is it affordability, career ambition, doom and gloom about the state of the world? And why, at the same time, are we having fewer kids than ever before and obsessed with trad wife content?

And overall, the question that’s occupied the male brain for much, if not all, of human history: What’s going on with women?

Editor's Note: In this interview it is said that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is 37. She is 36.