Barbara Scully
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And they don't want to feel like they're bigger than everybody, including the boys.
And they want to wear the same clothes that all their little teeny petite friends wear.
are wearing and it's one of the hardest things is to try and help them negotiate through that and find themselves and be proud of the fact that they are tall and accept the fact that they are in inverted commas slightly different from all their mates and they're not going to be able to wear the same things as all their mates are but in the end I think it's an advantage oh absolutely it's a huge advantage when it comes to
than standing up for yourself as a woman.
You know, I think it's much harder if you're smaller because you have that, the whole power differential is so much greater than when you're trying to stand up for yourself, be it in work or be it in a situation that might be slightly dangerous.
It is easier if you are tall to be a woman, definitely.
Yeah.
You know, it's so interesting, isn't it?
I felt for a long time like I was too big.
I took up too much space and I could never be.
And I mean, that might be where I started to use humour then as well.
You know, if I'm going to be kind of standing out, well, I might as well go the whole hog and kind of be focused and all the rest of it.
So, but yeah, no, it's good.
I wouldn't swap it now.
And I've never worn high shoes, which is great.
I've always worn flat shoes, which is wonderful.
And your legs are so long.
They're fabulous.
Well, they're not fabulous.
Now, they are long, but they're not fabulous.