Melyssa Ford
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2,556 appearances
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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You're right, but I'm very frustrated by the way that that conversation has been handled over the course of months over here. Especially for somebody who has literally experienced it. Literally experienced it more times than I care to count.
Because the two things have nothing to fucking do with each other. Listen, all right, look, look, just wait. Okay. Just wait.
You don't get it. You don't get it. You don't get it.
We are going all over the fucking place. No, I'm just saying that... Listen, whoa, whoa, whoa. Just one second. But you made an excuse for him to... Wait, wait, wait. Just wait. Wait one second. Wait one second. He brought up the bear. He brought it up. This wasn't even part of the fucking conversation right now.
That was just throwing a fucking monkey wrench into the conversation about male masculinity. That has nothing to do with the fucking bear. Got it. It has everything to do with the erasure of men and what it is to be a man. Look.
No, just wait one second.
There was this case that just unfolded in fucking France. And the woman at the helm of this case, her name is Giselle Pellicot. She was 70 years old. And her husband, husband... spent the better part of a decade drugging her and advertising to men to come over and sexually assault her. And she did not know it. And do you know who these men were?
There was like 50 of them, 51 of them got some form of, I don't know, punishment, legal punishment. These men were doctors, plumbers, lawyers. They were family men. They were grandfathers. They were all the things. The whole point is that there is no face of a predator. There's no face. There is no look. There's no nothing. You can't tell. hell.
So when women are talking about sexual assault, it has nothing to do with, you know, be afraid of, you know, men because they're just scary. It's just, there's no fucking picture as to what predatory, what a predator looks like. The predator can look like your next door fucking neighbor. The predator can look like your fucking father.
The predator can be your uncle, can be your brother, can be anybody. That's the whole point.
Here's my thing. Yeah, agreed.
It's not an excuse. I asked a question.
Do you want to know why?
Do you want to know why I asked that?
Do you know why?
This is why I asked it. Yes, ma'am. Simple reason why. Because as black people, black women, black men, we are forced to grow up a lot faster than we should. Okay? We are looked at as more mature than our years actually dictate. Mm-hmm. And that is unfair. That's unfair to both black female children and black male children.
They should be able and they should be allowed to have a childhood, a full childhood. That was the only reason why I asked. Had nothing to do with him making a poor decision.
And I understand that. But Anthony Mackie is very, very rich. He has a lot of money. He has a lot of access to things. I'm just talking about him specifically. I'm not talking about, you know, say the single mom who's got several children and she's got to work two jobs. And yes, then she relies on her children. And I understand that.
And I will give him that he could be considered an exception to the rule. That was the only reason why I asked that question. And it had nothing to do with, you know... the concept of masculinity being bastardized or forced upon him too early. No, it's just like, he's still kind of a kid. And he should be able to be a kid. That's the only reason why I asked it.
both can happen I feel like you know in closing I feel okay I was just gonna say I feel like you know that I had a lot of responsibility put on my shoulders way too early I wasn't allowed to be a kid like for as long as I should have been I wasn't allowed and so that's the only reason why I asked the question it had nothing to do with the concept masculinity look at what you became look at what you became smart intellectual yeah focused determined yeah highlight the positivities of that it's great
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