Brittany Renner On Why She deserves SHAME
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with one of the most notorious people in the manosphere, EJ Academics. We talk about his origin story, how he became a villain, and how he got his nickname, "The Villain."
Transcript
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You are one of the most notorious people in the manosphere, and I think that I kind of represent the average viewer that knows a bit about you, but not the whole story.
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How did this reputation come about, and do you feel like it is deserved?
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I do feel that it's deserved because what I've come to understand is that I have misrepresented myself for a very long time.
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And I would say that my villain origin story was I had first moved to L.A. in 2014, was linking up with someone after my breakup with a guy I was with for four years.
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And TMZ put out an article and claimed that I said I was pregnant by Colin Kaepernick, right?
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Wait, okay, so you were with a guy for four years?
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And you were dating Colin Kaepernick at the time?
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And with that, they had photoshopped a picture.
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This was Instagram a long time ago when there was Woman Crush Wednesdays, Man Crush Monday.
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So I had posted him and I put perfection and then I added him.
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But someone had photoshopped the image, media takeout.
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I don't know if you ever heard of them, but they had posted it and then TMZ ran the story.
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And I felt like from that moment on, I was labeled a villain.
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And you have to understand, I was in a relationship for four years.
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Like most people know the white guy that I used to date.
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And I was already labeled a villain, a whore, and was accused of something that I didn't do.
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So I had put perfection at his username and they photoshopped it to say preggers at his username.
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So they were like, oh, this girl claims that she's...
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They were saying that you claimed that you were...
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I looked it up last night to see if the article was still up and it's still up.
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So at that moment in time, I realized that even though by per society standards, I was someone
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Starting out in Hollywood, already labeled a whore, a liar, a gold digger.
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So when I think about how my origin story began, like my villain origin story, it was that.
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Because it's like, I haven't even done anything and I'm already misunderstood.
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So I think as time progressed, I really just tried to fake it till I could make it.
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And inside, I never, like, especially in high school, like growing up, I never felt like
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I was just top tier beautiful because I just wasn't, you know, I was growing into myself.
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I always had really bad skin, over fried my hair, always wearing extensions, never feeling
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pretty as even my natural self, like where I am now.
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Um, so how I started even like posting videos and having, and being maybe like overly sexual
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was because I was like, I want to feel like this bad bitch.
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So I'm just going to give you, seen a couple car rants.
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And I know that, um, I saw the stuff you did with Fresh and Fit, EJ Academics, like this
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So when we go back to 20, you said 2014, when you're in LA, so then did you start dating
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Um, I would just say that I started like dating period.
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Um, so I would say that the, the villain came about was, I never, I was a small town girl
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from Mississippi, like to even be in certain rooms with people where it was unheard of.
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I never thought these, these guys would even know I existed.
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So I felt like there was still that like starry eyed element where I didn't know what I was
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I felt like I had been like thrown into Disney world, so to speak.
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And again, all of these high value men are now seeking you.
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And again, I'm a girl from Ocean Springs, Mississippi.
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Um, so I think that's where over sexualizing myself and really pitching into that.
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That's like the whole bad bitch, like wanting to feel like something I didn't.
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So were you, were you sleeping with a lot of these guys and then like posting stuff on
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No, actually, I, like I said, besides that post where I had, you know, made him my man
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crush Monday, I didn't even say that we were dating.
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You know, I never, it's not like I was like, Hey, look at me.
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It wasn't that it was just, that's how everything started out.
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So I'm just trying to understand because there's one, one article that's a one-off, right?
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Like, you know, I, you can kind of recover from one article in my opinion anyway.
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But there, there was more that happened in between.
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I, well, I mean, cause I'm saying this because this is literally on like TMZ.
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So after that, um, when I was talking to him, I kind of moved on cause I'm like, whatever
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TMZ was like asking him questions about, cause like my fitness group was like the Fit Thick
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So then that's kind of where it just started to, so then you started, it wouldn't work out.
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And then, yeah, like I, I, especially when I first got on social media, it was a different
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I mean, it was just, I would entertain one at a time though.
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So I was like, when I'm done with you, I'm going to move on.
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And then it just became so unsuccessful relationships.
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So it was just like, you were linked with rapper entertainer.
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A lot of my show was public and I, and I feel like that's where a lot of people are like,
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she's a whore, but it's like, there's articles where someone took a picture of me at the movie
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So I would say now, um, you know, when you've kind of figured out how the world works, you
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try to be a bit more mindful about who you even step out with, but you can't control if
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Again, I'm a 21, 22 year old posted that man crush Monday.
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But all these other guys, they did not, I didn't post them on my page.
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So, and so then basically, um, because you were linked to all these different guys publicly
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So this is, this is where, so then the book camps tell me 2018.
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What I know of the book is that you basically exposed a lot of people in the book.
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You, basically all the stuff you'd been doing, you put in the book and while you might not
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have said their names exactly, it was pretty easy for people to figure out who they were.
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So my book was like a 25 year old memoir basically.
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So there were seven, seven people, fake names, um, seven relationships, like situationships,
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whatever you want to call them and what I learned from that.
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So there was a lot of, my book was about sharing my story and being accountable.
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The most like salacious stories or sexapades, they weren't even in there because it wasn't
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I mean, it's just kind of like, that was never my intention.
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Now, again, I know the salacious marketing was intentional because I knew people were thinking
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I'm going to, it's like, it's like a thumbnail.
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Like, yeah, look at all of these guys are in here.
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I read the book, but when people actually read it, any person who has read my book is
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like, wait, this is completely different than how you pitched it.
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So those seven people really helped, were like pivotal moments for me.
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So again, I took what came with the salacious marketing.
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And again, misrepresenting myself is just that, right?
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I had no problem with doing, you know, using my tactics to get copies sold.
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And what came with that is she's not trustworthy.
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And I understand that you've never read my book.
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It's like, what I'm saying doesn't even make sense.
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Cause like you would actually have to physically read it.
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That's why the book is called Judge This Cover.
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There are people that just took little snippets from each chapter and judge me off of that.
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I was talking about spitting in his mouth or paying for flights.
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So there's just things in there that I felt like people did not want to understand me.
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So your opinion doesn't fucking matter about the book.
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Read it and then tell me how you feel about me.
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Were any of the people that were in the book mad that you wrote the book?
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The conversations I've had, because there's maybe like two or two guys in there that I have not spoken to.
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The other five I've had conversations with since.
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One of the people I had actually asked me to market them as one of the people in it.
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Other guys in my life, just in general, were asked like why they weren't in it.
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But most of the guys I had a good relationship with, like we're still cool.
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So they understood that that was my experience.
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I mean, there was one chapter I spoke to recently.
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He, he was like, I was just waiting for you to say my name so I could have sued you for everything.
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But he was like, I understood your perspective.
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So none of the guys had hurt feelings over the book.
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Well, so that, that seems cause I kind of thought, um, like from what I had heard is
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that some of the guys maybe weren't happy they were in the book.
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I'm sure they weren't, but I think the people that weren't happy about it, the two that
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I'm thinking of in my mind, I just haven't spoken to them.
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So you don't think like, cause I'm just thinking this is, I just know how the guys are going
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Like you're choosing to publicly link with these people and maybe you didn't want it to be
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public, but it's like, if you're making a choice to go after the like rappers, athletes,
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like that sort of thing, of course, people are going to call you a hoe and that's fine.
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But it goes back to my original question, whether you think it's earned or not, or it's
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Well, I think there's that I have misrepresented myself because again, I bundle of Brittany is
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And that's like a fraction, even just the time we've spent the past few days together, probably
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You know, so that's what I have used to get views and get clicks.
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And I've realized that I don't have to do that anymore.
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So that's where the misrepresentation comes in.
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But again, a hoe and I guess is in this sphere, right, is someone who has sex with multiple
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Well, then that's not a term I'm going to shy away from.
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Now I'm not going to take that word and be like, I'm so unworthy.
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Like, that's how they want to distinguish what category women fall under.
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As many of you know, I was just banned on TikTok and we are demonetized on a daily basis
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