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Glennon

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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We Can Do Hard Things
Jia Tolentino: The 1% of Life that Makes It All Worth It (Best Of)

And I also think that there's an exceptionalism piece to this that I'm really interested in, which is that like, I'm not like a regular sorority girl. I'm not a regular Real Housewives watcher.

We Can Do Hard Things
Jia Tolentino: The 1% of Life that Makes It All Worth It (Best Of)

And I also think that there's an exceptionalism piece to this that I'm really interested in, which is that like, I'm not like a regular sorority girl. I'm not a regular Real Housewives watcher.

We Can Do Hard Things
Jia Tolentino: The 1% of Life that Makes It All Worth It (Best Of)

I have to distinguish myself from that by showing that I am a feminist and an activist and a whatever, as opposed to being like, actually, if we don't try to prove our own exceptionalism, then we could just all lean into this idea that Everything is a paradox.

We Can Do Hard Things
Jia Tolentino: The 1% of Life that Makes It All Worth It (Best Of)

I have to distinguish myself from that by showing that I am a feminist and an activist and a whatever, as opposed to being like, actually, if we don't try to prove our own exceptionalism, then we could just all lean into this idea that Everything is a paradox.

We Can Do Hard Things
Jia Tolentino: The 1% of Life that Makes It All Worth It (Best Of)

I have to distinguish myself from that by showing that I am a feminist and an activist and a whatever, as opposed to being like, actually, if we don't try to prove our own exceptionalism, then we could just all lean into this idea that Everything is a paradox.

We Can Do Hard Things
Jia Tolentino: The 1% of Life that Makes It All Worth It (Best Of)

And when you do, when you say that there are feminist sorority girls, you know, like you have to acknowledge your place in this like shameful structure and you have to critique it. But can you not do that better when you're leaning into the paradox and saying, maybe I'm just a person who likes your housewives and maybe there isn't something that you can automatically say about me because I am.

We Can Do Hard Things
Jia Tolentino: The 1% of Life that Makes It All Worth It (Best Of)

And when you do, when you say that there are feminist sorority girls, you know, like you have to acknowledge your place in this like shameful structure and you have to critique it. But can you not do that better when you're leaning into the paradox and saying, maybe I'm just a person who likes your housewives and maybe there isn't something that you can automatically say about me because I am.

We Can Do Hard Things
Jia Tolentino: The 1% of Life that Makes It All Worth It (Best Of)

And when you do, when you say that there are feminist sorority girls, you know, like you have to acknowledge your place in this like shameful structure and you have to critique it. But can you not do that better when you're leaning into the paradox and saying, maybe I'm just a person who likes your housewives and maybe there isn't something that you can automatically say about me because I am.

We Can Do Hard Things
Jia Tolentino: The 1% of Life that Makes It All Worth It (Best Of)

Maybe I am a sorority girl and I am changing that from within instead of making myself exceptional from it.

We Can Do Hard Things
Jia Tolentino: The 1% of Life that Makes It All Worth It (Best Of)

Maybe I am a sorority girl and I am changing that from within instead of making myself exceptional from it.

We Can Do Hard Things
Jia Tolentino: The 1% of Life that Makes It All Worth It (Best Of)

Maybe I am a sorority girl and I am changing that from within instead of making myself exceptional from it.

We Can Do Hard Things
Jia Tolentino: The 1% of Life that Makes It All Worth It (Best Of)

Exactly.

We Can Do Hard Things
Jia Tolentino: The 1% of Life that Makes It All Worth It (Best Of)

Exactly.

We Can Do Hard Things
Jia Tolentino: The 1% of Life that Makes It All Worth It (Best Of)

Exactly.

We Can Do Hard Things
Jia Tolentino: The 1% of Life that Makes It All Worth It (Best Of)

I just love it because I think we compartmentalize so much And compartmentalizing is the defense against paradox. But if we take all those compartmentalizations away and... and just say like, this is what it all is. It's a big stew of us participating in these horrible structures that are violence against people. And we're just as much a part of it, even though we think we're special.

We Can Do Hard Things
Jia Tolentino: The 1% of Life that Makes It All Worth It (Best Of)

I just love it because I think we compartmentalize so much And compartmentalizing is the defense against paradox. But if we take all those compartmentalizations away and... and just say like, this is what it all is. It's a big stew of us participating in these horrible structures that are violence against people. And we're just as much a part of it, even though we think we're special.

We Can Do Hard Things
Jia Tolentino: The 1% of Life that Makes It All Worth It (Best Of)

I just love it because I think we compartmentalize so much And compartmentalizing is the defense against paradox. But if we take all those compartmentalizations away and... and just say like, this is what it all is. It's a big stew of us participating in these horrible structures that are violence against people. And we're just as much a part of it, even though we think we're special.

We Can Do Hard Things
Jia Tolentino: The 1% of Life that Makes It All Worth It (Best Of)

Like, you know, I'm a baseball mom, asterisk. I'm also a radical feminist. We try to like make ourselves different than that, but we actually are all the things. And I think

We Can Do Hard Things
Jia Tolentino: The 1% of Life that Makes It All Worth It (Best Of)

Like, you know, I'm a baseball mom, asterisk. I'm also a radical feminist. We try to like make ourselves different than that, but we actually are all the things. And I think

We Can Do Hard Things
Jia Tolentino: The 1% of Life that Makes It All Worth It (Best Of)

Like, you know, I'm a baseball mom, asterisk. I'm also a radical feminist. We try to like make ourselves different than that, but we actually are all the things. And I think