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We Can Do Hard Things
Women at Work & The Episode That Wasn’t with Sarah Spain (Best Of)

He introduced me to another employee by saying, do you know what color eyes she has? I haven't made it up there yet. The next day when we went into the office, I presumed that this was unique to him, but we're in front of the person doing the hiring. And he said, after last night, I came up with an idea for a show.

We Can Do Hard Things
Women at Work & The Episode That Wasn’t with Sarah Spain (Best Of)

He introduced me to another employee by saying, do you know what color eyes she has? I haven't made it up there yet. The next day when we went into the office, I presumed that this was unique to him, but we're in front of the person doing the hiring. And he said, after last night, I came up with an idea for a show.

We Can Do Hard Things
Women at Work & The Episode That Wasn’t with Sarah Spain (Best Of)

It's just me standing over Sarah, sitting in a chair for an hour, looking at her tits. And the person hiring was like, that's hilarious. And I was like, what am I getting into? And I called home and I just was so upset because I had, again, read about it and heard about it. And I just thought, well, not me. You know what I mean?

We Can Do Hard Things
Women at Work & The Episode That Wasn’t with Sarah Spain (Best Of)

It's just me standing over Sarah, sitting in a chair for an hour, looking at her tits. And the person hiring was like, that's hilarious. And I was like, what am I getting into? And I called home and I just was so upset because I had, again, read about it and heard about it. And I just thought, well, not me. You know what I mean?

We Can Do Hard Things
Women at Work & The Episode That Wasn’t with Sarah Spain (Best Of)

It's just me standing over Sarah, sitting in a chair for an hour, looking at her tits. And the person hiring was like, that's hilarious. And I was like, what am I getting into? And I called home and I just was so upset because I had, again, read about it and heard about it. And I just thought, well, not me. You know what I mean?

We Can Do Hard Things
Women at Work & The Episode That Wasn’t with Sarah Spain (Best Of)

And that's another thing that it really opened my eyes to was the judgment that we have of women who are victimized or mistreated as in whatever way being different from us, that there must be some reason that that's happening instead of understanding that men who behave in this way do not need any excuse, do not need anything within what you are and who you are to behave in this way.

We Can Do Hard Things
Women at Work & The Episode That Wasn’t with Sarah Spain (Best Of)

And that's another thing that it really opened my eyes to was the judgment that we have of women who are victimized or mistreated as in whatever way being different from us, that there must be some reason that that's happening instead of understanding that men who behave in this way do not need any excuse, do not need anything within what you are and who you are to behave in this way.

We Can Do Hard Things
Women at Work & The Episode That Wasn’t with Sarah Spain (Best Of)

And that's another thing that it really opened my eyes to was the judgment that we have of women who are victimized or mistreated as in whatever way being different from us, that there must be some reason that that's happening instead of understanding that men who behave in this way do not need any excuse, do not need anything within what you are and who you are to behave in this way.

We Can Do Hard Things
Women at Work & The Episode That Wasn’t with Sarah Spain (Best Of)

And so it's very hard afterwards not to feel some sort of shame about what you might have done to bring it on yourself. And it's been impressive to see how a male-dominated sexist industry has made me so much more of a feminist than I was before I got into it because it just made everything so much more obvious when it was done.

We Can Do Hard Things
Women at Work & The Episode That Wasn’t with Sarah Spain (Best Of)

And so it's very hard afterwards not to feel some sort of shame about what you might have done to bring it on yourself. And it's been impressive to see how a male-dominated sexist industry has made me so much more of a feminist than I was before I got into it because it just made everything so much more obvious when it was done.

We Can Do Hard Things
Women at Work & The Episode That Wasn’t with Sarah Spain (Best Of)

And so it's very hard afterwards not to feel some sort of shame about what you might have done to bring it on yourself. And it's been impressive to see how a male-dominated sexist industry has made me so much more of a feminist than I was before I got into it because it just made everything so much more obvious when it was done.

We Can Do Hard Things
Women at Work & The Episode That Wasn’t with Sarah Spain (Best Of)

That applies to sexual assault, harassment, all sorts of things. It's called the just world ideology. And it's the idea that if we do everything right, nothing bad should happen to us. And it's the main reason that people victim blame. I was doing a story on Larry Nassar, the awful abuser at Michigan State.

We Can Do Hard Things
Women at Work & The Episode That Wasn’t with Sarah Spain (Best Of)

That applies to sexual assault, harassment, all sorts of things. It's called the just world ideology. And it's the idea that if we do everything right, nothing bad should happen to us. And it's the main reason that people victim blame. I was doing a story on Larry Nassar, the awful abuser at Michigan State.

We Can Do Hard Things
Women at Work & The Episode That Wasn’t with Sarah Spain (Best Of)

That applies to sexual assault, harassment, all sorts of things. It's called the just world ideology. And it's the idea that if we do everything right, nothing bad should happen to us. And it's the main reason that people victim blame. I was doing a story on Larry Nassar, the awful abuser at Michigan State.

We Can Do Hard Things
Women at Work & The Episode That Wasn’t with Sarah Spain (Best Of)

And people were asking questions about 13 and 14 year old girls that he had abused about what were they wearing or doing or why didn't they know any better? I was so infuriated and I couldn't figure out what, possibly could drive someone to blame a 14 year old girl. And so I wanted to write about it.

We Can Do Hard Things
Women at Work & The Episode That Wasn’t with Sarah Spain (Best Of)

And people were asking questions about 13 and 14 year old girls that he had abused about what were they wearing or doing or why didn't they know any better? I was so infuriated and I couldn't figure out what, possibly could drive someone to blame a 14 year old girl. And so I wanted to write about it.

We Can Do Hard Things
Women at Work & The Episode That Wasn’t with Sarah Spain (Best Of)

And people were asking questions about 13 and 14 year old girls that he had abused about what were they wearing or doing or why didn't they know any better? I was so infuriated and I couldn't figure out what, possibly could drive someone to blame a 14 year old girl. And so I wanted to write about it.

We Can Do Hard Things
Women at Work & The Episode That Wasn’t with Sarah Spain (Best Of)

And I found some experts and the just world ideology is essentially if I dress right, act right, walk in the right places, don't walk after dark, do all these things, then nothing bad will happen to me. And to live in a world where you believe that you're not in control of whether something awful can happen to you is so scary that people would rather find a way to blame those who are the victims.

We Can Do Hard Things
Women at Work & The Episode That Wasn’t with Sarah Spain (Best Of)

And I found some experts and the just world ideology is essentially if I dress right, act right, walk in the right places, don't walk after dark, do all these things, then nothing bad will happen to me. And to live in a world where you believe that you're not in control of whether something awful can happen to you is so scary that people would rather find a way to blame those who are the victims.

We Can Do Hard Things
Women at Work & The Episode That Wasn’t with Sarah Spain (Best Of)

And I found some experts and the just world ideology is essentially if I dress right, act right, walk in the right places, don't walk after dark, do all these things, then nothing bad will happen to me. And to live in a world where you believe that you're not in control of whether something awful can happen to you is so scary that people would rather find a way to blame those who are the victims.