JustPearlyThings - April 23, 2023


Modern Woman IGNORES Her Parents Advice


Episode Stats

Length

11 minutes

Words per Minute

197.01836

Word Count

2,229

Sentence Count

152

Misogynist Sentences

16

Hate Speech Sentences

5


Summary

In this episode, we discuss what it means to be a woman in the 21st century and why it s important to have survival skills in order to survive in the modern world. We talk about how important it is to be able to cook for your man, clean for him, and take care of yourself.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 I'm just saying, like, we have been talking about the men forever.
00:00:03.600 It's like, we, like, they, I don't want no scrub, scrub.
00:00:08.480 Like, there's, there's no, there's no, there's no song saying, I don't want no whale, a whale is out.
00:00:13.840 Like, nobody's saying that.
00:00:15.900 And I'm saying, like, we, they have had, like, we have had decades where we talk.
00:00:20.440 It's like, now the men are finally talking and we can't even give them their.
00:00:24.820 That's kind of true because even men, when they were singing about women, they sang a lot about.
00:00:29.280 Love songs.
00:00:30.440 It was nice.
00:00:32.440 And I think it's sad to see that men are not making that music.
00:00:34.780 I feel like from the moment you're born, I don't know if it's just in an African home.
00:00:39.360 In an African home, you're literally raised to cater for your man.
00:00:43.580 That's good.
00:00:44.360 From as young as I was.
00:00:44.920 My mom, I was eight.
00:00:45.780 My mom was like, you need to know how to cook for your man.
00:00:48.000 You need to look good for your man.
00:00:50.420 You should be thankful you were naturally taught game.
00:00:53.280 A lot of girls didn't get taught that.
00:00:55.640 I didn't get that.
00:00:56.280 Yeah, like, a lot of, a lot of women would love, like, even, I mean, my parents just started dating.
00:01:01.940 My parents, my parents started dating when they were 17.
00:01:04.420 My mom taught me no game.
00:01:05.700 She's like, meet your husband in high school.
00:01:07.380 A lot of women aren't taught the basic necessities of being a woman, like, cooking, cleaning.
00:01:12.400 It's shocking to me.
00:01:13.320 Yeah, so it's a privilege.
00:01:15.560 Like, you have something in your holster, in your bag that you can whip out whenever you need to for a man.
00:01:21.580 Like, okay, I can cook for him.
00:01:22.820 I can clean for him because you have it on you.
00:01:24.780 A lot of women had to learn that on their own or just had to go throughout life and learning it.
00:01:30.820 They never were taught it or they never needed to have it until they were in a position where, like, oh, I can't do this on my own.
00:01:38.800 I can't cook.
00:01:39.500 I can't clean.
00:01:40.400 I can't work a simple vacuum.
00:01:43.060 I can't do this because things have been done for me my whole life or I was never taught that.
00:01:48.180 And so you shouldn't look at it as, like, oh, I was taught this from jump.
00:01:52.760 I was taught how to cater to my man or be a woman.
00:01:55.740 And, like, African women, like women like me, Nigerian background especially, that's all we know.
00:02:02.640 It's about, even, like, now I'm 26.
00:02:05.040 My mom tells me if I'm 30 without a husband, I am basically useless.
00:02:08.720 Okay, okay, but you at least, so if you look at dating app data, she's right.
00:02:14.600 I agree, she's right about that.
00:02:16.420 So if you look at dating app data, that's when the numbers change,
00:02:19.880 where, like, women typically have more, like, leverage on dating apps than men until 30.
00:02:24.600 And then men typically do.
00:02:26.080 I can't remember.
00:02:27.240 Some girl was going over the study.
00:02:29.340 But, and so, like, she was being honest.
00:02:32.280 And if anything, you should be thankful for how well they prepped you for the world
00:02:35.720 because a lot of girls hit 30 and have no idea.
00:02:40.340 Like, this is a privilege.
00:02:41.440 Like, a lot of girls don't have a dad or a mom to, like, tell them these things.
00:02:45.100 And even me, like, my mom didn't know shit about dating or the dating landscape.
00:02:50.860 And, yeah, and it's, like, so you at least know this at 26 where you can still make choices
00:02:56.520 that would get you in a better position at 30 where other girls are going to hit 30
00:03:01.660 completely blind and screwed.
00:03:03.320 Oh, but you know what?
00:03:05.260 I, although today I'm not in your side, I will agree with her.
00:03:09.820 And the only thing I will do is say slightly different.
00:03:14.520 I will say, like, for example, for me, like I mentioned, my dad passed away when I was 12.
00:03:20.560 But I grew up seeing my mom cater to my dad.
00:03:22.740 So I learned a lot from him.
00:03:23.800 But then after he was gone, what my mom did is teach me these survival skills that you need
00:03:30.640 anyways to be able to make it through the world.
00:03:34.020 So I believe that even things like cooking, sewing, this, this, that, that's all type of
00:03:38.680 kind of like self-care.
00:03:40.600 And once you learn to take care of yourself, you'll be able to learn to take care of someone else.
00:03:44.200 But the fact that a lot of the time, a lot of women don't still have the ability to take
00:03:48.120 accountability means you're not taking care of yourself because you don't even know what
00:03:51.620 you're doing wrong.
00:03:52.220 So you can't even be better.
00:03:53.720 So when you go into a relationship, you land yourself in trouble.
00:03:56.580 That's what it is.
00:03:57.520 You should be able to do for yourself what you can do for others.
00:04:00.560 If not, then there's no point in you trying to say, oh, but you know, I'm a woman.
00:04:03.880 And why am I going to do this for a man?
00:04:05.400 Do it for yourself.
00:04:06.320 How can you not cook?
00:04:07.160 What's going to happen if you can't cook?
00:04:08.960 What about the fact that as a woman, you're going to be the mother?
00:04:11.620 And as I mentioned earlier, as the mother, as the woman, you're going to be more nurturing.
00:04:15.640 So these basic life skills, forget about even for a man.
00:04:18.880 Do it for you and for the fact that one day you may want to be a mother.
00:04:21.620 Then everything falls into place if that makes it an easier pill to swallow.
00:04:25.580 See, I agree with that.
00:04:27.800 I do have a question.
00:04:28.940 From your perspective, Brittany, how was it for you?
00:04:35.100 Correct me if I'm wrong.
00:04:36.140 You grew up with just your mother.
00:04:38.060 So I was raised by my mom until about like nine and then my grandma kind of took over.
00:04:45.620 So when I was growing up, I thought my mom just didn't want to be around, but my grandma
00:04:48.800 was really controlling and was basically like, I'm the mom now.
00:04:51.880 So like she kicked my mom out and my grandma was my caretaker, my grandma and grandpa.
00:04:56.620 So I was raised by my grandparents the other half of my life.
00:04:59.960 Okay, how was that for you in terms of just learning how to be a woman whenever you reached
00:05:06.860 that point?
00:05:07.840 I felt like a lot of their ideas were just really outdated.
00:05:13.600 I felt like they were really strict and it was smothering.
00:05:16.520 So even just going to a simple party or going to a friend's house, like as an adult, do I
00:05:21.940 see why maybe parents aren't so quick to let you go over to someone's house?
00:05:25.460 Yes, but it was to a place where you couldn't even explore.
00:05:29.440 I didn't really learn too much from my grandma about being a wife or how to be in a relationship
00:05:36.820 because I always felt like they just tolerated each other.
00:05:39.580 I never really saw the love, like the bond.
00:05:44.360 I've never really seen that.
00:05:46.540 It's just always something I've known to be true, but I've never seen anybody do it.
00:05:51.060 So I felt like my grandma was trying to get me to cook and do little stuff like that.
00:05:54.880 But it just was never something that I really took an interest in.
00:05:58.400 I'm like, I genuinely never felt like I belonged in the kitchen.
00:06:02.180 And that's where, too, I resented my thought process a lot growing up because I'm like,
00:06:10.040 why can't I just be a little bit more simple, a little bit more obedient, maybe more agreeable,
00:06:14.160 not have such a strong opinion, not be so introspective?
00:06:18.120 That's just where I'm just different.
00:06:19.760 So I feel like my grandma tried to teach me maybe how to cook, but as far as catering to
00:06:23.900 a man, no, I learned everything on the fly.
00:06:27.880 And that's where I think sometimes maybe I get a little frustrated with the internet's
00:06:32.760 perspective because I'm like, you don't even know what I've had to go through to even be
00:06:36.200 able to speak with this awareness.
00:06:38.660 Like I've had to bump my head so many times to just be able to sit in my car and give you
00:06:44.580 a sermon, you know?
00:06:45.520 So I just never felt like I really was prepared to be a wife, ever, genuinely.
00:06:53.280 And you're not alone.
00:06:54.160 I think a lot of girls feel like that.
00:06:56.180 Like, I mean, how many, I don't think the stuff that we talk about on these podcasts would
00:07:00.300 be so shocking if women weren't lied to for 50 years.
00:07:04.160 Yeah.
00:07:04.400 And I think it's like, even talking to Andrew today, like, wasn't it helpful?
00:07:08.220 Like when he was talking about stuff, I was, even me, and I listened to this stuff all the
00:07:12.200 time.
00:07:12.440 I was like, oh, I never thought of that.
00:07:14.680 Like when he was talking about how to get a guy to stop playing video games, I was like,
00:07:17.580 I wish I knew this.
00:07:21.240 I was like, wow.
00:07:22.420 Yeah, that's actually a good one.
00:07:24.440 When I think about it, yeah.
00:07:26.060 I want to try it.
00:07:27.040 Do you think that coming from a two-parent home and it's like a loving environment that's
00:07:34.380 for everybody, that it sets you up more for success to be able to operate in relationships
00:07:41.520 or be willing to submit to whoever the man is because you've seen it growing up?
00:07:47.980 Or does it just, does it not have an effect?
00:07:50.400 I think that's a really great question.
00:07:52.080 I know a lot of people who grew up in dual parent households and they saw their mother
00:07:57.700 getting cheated on and staying.
00:08:01.160 And like, I know like someone recently, they were married for like 25 years or so, for 23
00:08:07.400 years.
00:08:07.760 And she left basically when the kids were old enough to just like, none of them were in
00:08:11.780 high school anymore.
00:08:13.720 And I, I remember when I was talking to her, she felt like she was setting her kids up for
00:08:17.960 success because we're all under the same roof.
00:08:19.940 Um, they have a better chance of whatever.
00:08:23.060 Right.
00:08:23.500 And it still was damaging because you are witnessing your mother tolerate disrespect for, uh, security.
00:08:35.280 How did, how did the kids know?
00:08:37.800 How the kids, how the kids know what?
00:08:39.400 That she was being cheated on.
00:08:40.900 Um, it was something that this particular situation, it was, I know one instance was like one of
00:08:50.140 their family friends.
00:08:51.580 Oh shit.
00:08:52.420 Yeah.
00:08:52.580 It was really close to home stuff.
00:08:54.180 Um, and there was another situation, another scenario where it was, it was one of the family
00:08:59.060 friends they were cheating on or is that told them?
00:09:01.340 Um, no, it was, they were cheating with one of their family friends.
00:09:04.700 So like someone like, oh, we go over to her house all the time, but my dad is sleeping with
00:09:07.740 her.
00:09:08.300 Oh, so he, they would see the parent cheat.
00:09:10.840 Um, it, I'm not exactly, I don't, I don't think it was, they physically saw it, but it
00:09:15.180 was something that the mom would share, um, that they would hear arguments to, like if
00:09:20.880 they weren't, even if they weren't involved in the actual argument, they would overhear,
00:09:23.940 um, which obviously, you know, showing, exposing your kids to that stuff is one thing.
00:09:29.160 But the other instance was, um, the dad was going out to the club with like the son and
00:09:36.200 he had a girl with him.
00:09:37.480 So it's like that direct, like, I don't respect your mom in this way.
00:09:43.120 I can do what I want to do.
00:09:44.120 And your mom's still going to stay.
00:09:45.380 So that's where I feel like it really depends on what's going on in that household.
00:09:49.720 Because seeing your mom be basically disrespected for comfort, it's like, it sends the wrong
00:09:57.220 message about love.
00:09:58.400 I agree.
00:09:58.800 Like blatant dislike.
00:09:59.700 I can't believe he brought his son to a club and she like that.
00:10:02.480 That's crazy.
00:10:03.220 Yeah.
00:10:03.440 Like the girl with him.
00:10:04.420 But I just think sometimes, you know, we never talk about like the women's part to
00:10:08.460 play in this.
00:10:09.280 And like one, one in four marriages are sexless.
00:10:12.160 One is horror.
00:10:13.500 And so I just think if you're going to starve a man and he's begging you to sleep with him
00:10:17.980 and someone comes on a platter, like, that's why I say we never talk about why the men cheat.
00:10:22.700 And a lot of people will take this out of context.
00:10:24.360 Like I believe in cheating, but like there are times where the woman is not sleeping with
00:10:28.780 the man and then he cheats, but he's not naturally inclined to.
00:10:31.640 And that's a conversation we don't really have.
00:10:35.360 I'm not saying it's okay, but it's almost like, what did you, what did you expect?
00:10:40.180 But at the same time, I was just banned on TikTok and we are demonetized on a daily basis
00:10:46.100 on this platform.
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