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Alex Cooper

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Call Her Daddy
Michelle Obama: We Still Go High

We have to acknowledge the game.

Call Her Daddy
Michelle Obama: We Still Go High

And I think for a while, potentially, especially with feminists and everything, we felt weird being like, no, play the game because it feels like we are twisting something and we're being sneaky.

Call Her Daddy
Michelle Obama: We Still Go High

And it's like, no, no, no, no.

Call Her Daddy
Michelle Obama: We Still Go High

We are the other.

Call Her Daddy
Michelle Obama: We Still Go High

We are the other.

Call Her Daddy
Michelle Obama: We Still Go High

So when we are coming in, it's we're always playing someone else's game as women.

Call Her Daddy
Michelle Obama: We Still Go High

We are the other sex.

Call Her Daddy
Michelle Obama: We Still Go High

So it's OK if you are trying to move a certain way because we live in a man's world and

Call Her Daddy
Michelle Obama: We Still Go High

And so you have to sometimes placate and smile and do these things.

Call Her Daddy
Michelle Obama: We Still Go High

But if you get your message across, that's kind of all that matters.

Call Her Daddy
Michelle Obama: We Still Go High

If you get what you wanted to get done.

Call Her Daddy
Michelle Obama: We Still Go High

Something as you're saying that to bring men into this conversation, which I was watching your speech in 2016 today when you were the whole speech was really about women and you were there for Hillary.

Call Her Daddy
Michelle Obama: We Still Go High

And it was such a beautiful moment because you're like.

Call Her Daddy
Michelle Obama: We Still Go High

And men, men listening.

Call Her Daddy
Michelle Obama: We Still Go High

And I think sometimes I don't want ever to have men leave the conversation and be like, oh, I guess it's not about me.

Call Her Daddy
Michelle Obama: We Still Go High

And it's us against you and it's a whole thing.

Call Her Daddy
Michelle Obama: We Still Go High

So I think to bring men into this conversation, you've talked about some really important male figures in your life.

Call Her Daddy
Michelle Obama: We Still Go High

You've talked about your father, your brother, your husband.

Call Her Daddy
Michelle Obama: We Still Go High

How do we bring men in and make them allies and partners to help solve these issues?

Call Her Daddy
Michelle Obama: We Still Go High

Because women cannot do this alone.