WHY I CAME OUT AS CONSERVATIVE ｜｜ Conservative women NEED a community!
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about why I decided to come out as a conservative influencer and why it was so important for me to do so. I also talk about how important it is for conservative women to have a safe space where they can be open and honest about what they believe.
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Hello beautiful ladies and welcome to today's video where we're going to be talking about
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why I decided to come out as a conservative influencer.
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So in my last couple of videos you'll have seen that I have come out as a conservative
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influencer and I thought I would talk to you guys a little bit about why I decided to do that
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because I know that there aren't a lot of influencers in this space who talk about their
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politics openly they definitely live a certain lifestyle but they don't just embrace and say
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what they actually believe and what their views really are. But it was really important to me
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that I actually come out and say straight out I'm conservative. The reason I felt this was so
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important was because I have been afraid to say outright that I am a conservative for a lot of
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different reasons. The first is that I am an artist, I'm an opera singer, and in an artistic space it's
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very difficult to express that you're conservative without A being afraid that you'll lose jobs or B
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being afraid that you'll lose friends. A lot of the time in artistic spaces I've found that people who
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are on the other side of the aisle feel totally comfortable sharing their liberal views which
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hey if you want to share your views that's totally fine but no one on the other side of the aisle could
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respond. That to me is the real problem. I think that the best conversations and the most fruitful ones
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are the ones where people are able to say what they think without being afraid that they'll really
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upset someone. Of course that doesn't mean you can just be willy-nilly and say things that are
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insensitive or rude but really more to the point of let's talk about our ideas and if our ideas are
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different that's okay maybe that's even a good thing. It was a really big lesson for me when I was at
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the Manhattan School of Music because I was there for three years and it wasn't until I came out and said
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that I was conservative that I found out that there were actually more of us than I thought but we
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had all kept it secret because we were all afraid of expressing that we actually had a differing
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viewpoint. I think it's really important for conservative women to have a space to be open and
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honest about what they believe. For so long it's felt like conservative women have really had to keep
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all of their thoughts under wraps so that they don't get in trouble from their bosses, their friends,
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or their teachers. And I think conservative women in some ways have it harder than conservative men.
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If you don't believe that women should have a choice when it comes to abortion a lot of women
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will say that you're insensitive. Well I would say that we're not insensitive. We care about the child,
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the baby. And conservative women are very often not taken seriously. One of the things I found
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fascinating is that conservative women can't even find a community when they want to because no one
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feels comfortable voicing their views. So that's why I decided to come out and say I was conservative.
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I don't like living in fear. I don't like making choices based on being afraid. So instead I wanted
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to come out and say yes I am a conservative. Why does it matter that I'm conservative if I'm an
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influencer? Well my conservative views come prior to everything else. Everything that I talk about,
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everything that I believe in, everything that I choose to wear, or even the makeup that I put on.
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It comes from a conservative and classic perspective. When I say let's be classic, to me that's a
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lifestyle. And for me that classic lifestyle is built on my conservative lifestyle. My goal for
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Classically Abby isn't for it to be an only conservative woman space but a place where conservative
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women feel comfortable voicing their views. So if you find that you're on the opposite side of the
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aisle or even just a moderate, I would love to have you here if you are open to the idea of having
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conversations and discussions with people on the other side. That to me is an exciting opportunity
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that we have here. A place where women from all different sides and all different viewpoints
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really have a space to converse without being afraid that you're going to lose a friendship.
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With all of that in mind, I did create a locals community so that we could have that space built in.
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I want to have some sort of filter so that people who don't share these views of openness and
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open conversation can't just come in and flood the comments. I want this to be a space that really
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is safe. What I'm hoping to do is that for those who have a paid subscription, we'll have private
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live streams that will encourage us to have a conversation where I'll be there and you can comment in
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and I'll respond to questions and comments and you guys can talk to each other there as well.
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Another thing I'm really interested in looking into is doing video chat calls with my premium
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subscribers where we can have a group chat, 25 people, 50 people, however many people, where
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we're really talking about these ideas and we can actually talk to each other face to face.
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This whole thing makes me so excited and it's been a goal of mine that's been in the works
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for a long time. I really love the idea that conservative women and women across the aisle
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would all feel comfortable sharing their views and talking about these ideas without fear and
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that is why I decided to come out as a conservative influencer. Please let me know in the comments
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below what you think about all this. If you are a conservative woman that has been silenced and
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hasn't talked about your views, I would love to hear how you feel about this and I'd love to know
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how you'd like to be a part of this community. What other stuff you think a premium subscriber should
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have? I would love to know. And if you are on the other side of the aisle, please continue to
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comment. I love to hear your guys' points of view, especially if it's respectful. Thank you guys so
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much for watching today's video. Please subscribe to my channel and blog if you haven't already.
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