"I don't take advice from men."
This TicTok is gaining in popularity. Paige Turner explained the missing pieces from the success story of Casey Neistat. (Who? He's a vlogger and started a media company, Beme, which was acquired by CNN.) He told a rags to riches story on Diary of a CEO. It included quitting his job in a kitchen and moving to New York City at 19 and refusing to do any work in a kitchen again, which required being willing to sleep in halfway houses and couch surfing to "do whatever it takes". The part he appears to have left out is that he seemed to have left behind a girlfriend and baby. Paige raises the point that advice from men often leaves out the work done behind the scenes by women. Everything Betty Friedan said in 1963 is still a problem now.
@sheisapaigeturner I do not often take advice from men, even the most successful of men, because the common thread is usually that they were able to become successful, because there was a woman standing beside them, or behind them, supporting them. Without acknowledging this, the advice means very little because women often don’t have men standing besides them, or behind them to support them. #caseyneistat #diaryofaceo #millennialmom #workingmom #wfhmom #corporatemom #successfulwomen ♬ original sound - Paige
(Not sure why it only embeds periodically, but you can check it out at the link above.)
His journey to NY required sacrifices, but he doesn't mention how he managed to take care of a little one during this time. That piece of the story "wasn't critical because he had her." Women can't do these things once they have a kid, and if they do, they're vilified for putting their career before their kid. Women are still held to a different standard. Absolutely. The right to bodily autonomy being taken away in many states and in many other countries is just another way to keep half of the population subservient. Changing this requires a bigger mindset shift that hasn't quite happened yet.
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It's too bad that NOW, the women's organization Friedan co-founded, ignores her warning not to take advice from men. Instead, the organization fully supports Biden's plan to destroy women's sports by allowing men to compete in them.
Sports governing bodies, such as World Athletics and World Aquatics, have reached the obvious conclusion that allowing athletes who've gone through male puberty to compete in the women's category cannot be made fair. Reem Alsalem, the UN special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, said Biden's proposed changes to Title IX would violate women's and girls’ rights to equality and non-discrimination as student-athletes. But there's NOW, simping for mediocre men to deny talented young women their opportunities, scholarships, awards, safety, privacy and dignity. Those men should thank the women whose subservience makes this possible, but like Casey Neistat, they won't.
As feminist writer Joan Smith said, "All that nonsense about gender fluidity and pronouns is providing cover for a violent, narcissistic upsurge of misogyny. It allows angry men to say and do things they wouldn’t have dreamed of getting away with twenty years ago. And the people who make excuses for it are colluding in the most serious threat to women’s safety and rights in my lifetime." Is it any wonder so many girls want to identify out of their sex?
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