Rachel Wilson
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It's very threatening to people.
Well, in some ways, I'm the weirdest person to be here talking about this because I grew up a tomboy.
And I have a lot of people use this against me.
They're like, oh, you're actually really masculine for a woman.
You may not always look super masculine.
Well, you're really into firearms.
I'm really I'm a firearms instructor.
I'm like an OG meathead.
I did powerlifting for years.
I grew up on farms playing in the mud with the other boys in the neighborhood.
That's what I liked to do.
But I think that when you grow up like that as a woman, you realize like I'm really strong for a woman.
I can deadlift 250 pounds for sets of five.
But the guy next to me who has never trained in his life can do that, too.
And you give him six months in the gym and he's going to blow past me.
You know, you just you have a more realistic understanding of how that works.
And I think that in the modern era, all the feminist side debate, they live in this world that we're sitting in the studio right now and all this wonderful stuff that allows me to be here talking to you and talking to all the folks that are watching the microphone, the technology.
Everything was built by men.