JustPearlyThings - July 28, 2023


Pearl LOSES Her Cool Over This Topic

Hosted by
Hannah Pearl Davis
Mentioned
Jack Semple Scotsman Switzler Pearl Arnie
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Episode Stats


Length

7 minutes

Words per minute

193.62

Word count

1,545

Sentence count

125

Harmful content

Misogyny

26

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Toxicity

6

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Hate speech

15

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Summary

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A woman breaks the glass ceiling and becomes the first woman to complete the Boston Marathon. She did it by running a race that was supposed to be a male-dominated environment. But a woman named Pearl Switzler had other ideas.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 You can imagine at the start of the marathon, everyone was happy and laughing and cheerful
00:00:04.400 and was really supportive of me.
00:00:06.380 All the guys were really wonderful.
00:00:08.520 Duh, simps.
00:00:10.720 But the situation just changed over two miles into the race.
00:00:14.440 Then came the bleep bleep of press trucks and it went by us.
00:00:17.340 The photographers at the back of the truck saw I was a woman and wearing bib number 261 0.99
00:00:22.200 and kept filming and shouting at me.
00:00:24.680 What are you doing in this race?
00:00:26.160 What are you trying to prove?
00:00:27.620 I thought it was really strange. 0.99
00:00:29.020 Yeah, bitch, because you have to qualify to get into the race. 1.00
00:00:32.660 Like I'm not even, and I know how hard my mom worked to qualify for the Boston Marathon. 0.99
00:00:39.680 So imagine you're a guy, like this is the same thing.
00:00:43.460 You're a guy, you've worked so hard to qualify for this race.
00:00:47.680 And this woman is like, well, I'm a woman.
00:00:49.800 Let me in.
00:00:51.300 That's what really happened.
00:00:53.120 It wasn't the evil men and the women were fighting for equality.
00:00:57.280 No, it was a woman. 0.99
00:00:58.260 She wanted a special privilege and a special treatment.
00:01:02.120 And she wanted to take a men's space and make it a woman. 1.00
00:01:05.360 But when the men do it, the conservatives will disavow it.
00:01:08.600 But when the women do it, we say, oh, that's perfectly fine, honey. 1.00
00:01:11.580 You're breaking the glass ceiling.
00:01:13.280 Like, get out of here.
00:01:14.480 And people will say, but Pearl, you did women's sports. 1.00
00:01:17.020 Um, okay, yeah, I did.
00:01:19.560 And if women's sports didn't exist, I probably would have just found something else to be interested in. 1.00
00:01:24.420 Like you guys act like this is the end all be all.
00:01:27.060 Um, so and all of a sudden the press bus was another bus that was filmed with the officials.
00:01:33.340 And on this bus, the race director, a feisty Scotsman named Jack Semple, who organized the race. 0.53
00:01:41.460 That's his job to let the people that signed up for the race run the race.
00:01:47.320 He had a reputation for being feisty.
00:01:50.720 Also, the journalists on the bus were teasing him, saying there's a girl in your race.
00:01:54.600 And he lost his temper.
00:01:56.000 He had a short fuse anyway, but he jumped off the bus and ran after me.
00:01:59.720 He ran up behind me and I heard his leather shoes last minute.
00:02:02.880 You can hear the difference.
00:02:03.900 And when I turned, the fierce face was right in my face.
00:02:07.520 And he screamed, get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers. 0.93
00:02:10.440 And he's ripping off my numbers, trying to pull them off.
00:02:13.100 I shrieked and tried to get away and he grabbed me by the shirt and started pulling me back.
00:02:17.420 My coach said, leave her alone. 1.00
00:02:19.480 I've trained her.
00:02:20.520 He grabbed the corner of my number 261 on the back of the shirt and it was like a bad dream.
00:02:25.520 And I was trying to get away.
00:02:27.020 And then suddenly my boyfriend, who was running beside me and was an ex-All-American football player
00:02:32.580 and weighed 235 pounds, came and smashed the official with a shoulder charge and sent him flying.
00:02:39.840 The OG simp.
00:02:41.760 The OG simp.
00:02:42.880 Yes, darling.
00:02:45.220 Go into the race you're not allowed in and get, and I will protect you when the man who 1.00
00:02:51.140 put all the work into organizing the race kicks you out of it.
00:02:55.260 And the feminist will say, oh, you're just breaking the glass ceiling. 1.00
00:03:00.500 Like, I'm so tired of this shit. 1.00
00:03:02.300 If you wanted to break the glass ceiling, then go start your own race. 1.00
00:03:06.320 Don't infiltrate the men's race. 0.98
00:03:08.220 We all got scared.
00:03:09.760 My coach just said, run like hell and went running down the street, flying past the press
00:03:14.920 truck.
00:03:15.320 And the press truck was accelerating and screaming at me.
00:03:17.920 What are you trying to do?
00:03:19.420 When are you going to drop out?
00:03:21.020 And I was so afraid and I'm so full of confidence.
00:03:23.540 But now at that moment, I had just turned 20.
00:03:25.880 As a girl, I wasn't trying to prove anything.
00:03:28.400 I had proved to Arnie that I could go the distance and the reward was to go to Boston.
00:03:32.940 I couldn't understand why he was so angry.
00:03:36.340 And then I thought I had maybe done something wrong.
00:03:38.820 But at the moment, I got really angry myself, which is why I turned to my coach and I said,
00:03:43.240 I'm going to finish this race on my hands and knees if I have to.
00:03:47.020 Because if I don't finish this race, nobody's going to believe women can do it. 1.00
00:03:50.900 And they're not going to believe women deserve to be here. 1.00
00:03:53.400 I have to finish this race.
00:03:55.940 Switzler did finish and became the first woman to register and complete the Boston Marathon. 0.99
00:04:01.180 She remembers the day very clearly.
00:04:02.740 By the time we finished, four hours and 20 minutes later, the journalists were very crabby and aggressive
00:04:08.580 because they'd been standing in the cold waiting for the girl to finish.
00:04:11.500 What are you trying to prove?
00:04:12.840 Are you a suffragette or you're a crusader?
00:04:14.960 You're never going to run again.
00:04:16.560 See, guys, they didn't like the suffragette.
00:04:19.580 She remembers this day very clearly.
00:04:21.100 By the time we finished, four hours and 20 minutes later,
00:04:24.420 the journalists were very crabby and very aggressive
00:04:26.720 because they'd been standing in the cold waiting for the girl to finish.
00:04:29.620 What are you trying to prove?
00:04:30.720 Are you a suffragette or crusader?
00:04:32.180 you're never going to run again. I was only 20 years old and I said, we'll be back and at it
00:04:37.400 again and again. And if our club is banned, we'll start a new club. Well, then why didn't they just
00:04:42.680 start a club from the beginning? Do you see like, like you have to understand guys, we have to take
00:04:48.380 out this idea that the suffragettes were like these reasonable women. They were not, they were 0.99
00:04:53.180 the exact feminists that you see today. And it doesn't help when conservatives defend them. It 1.00
00:04:58.580 like rewrites history. A lot of them in the late 1800s, early 1900s, they had a history of getting
00:05:05.060 arrested and jailed, planning assassinations. Like they weren't these reasonable women. And I said 0.98
00:05:10.660 to the guy who said, I'd never run again. You're going to read about this, a little old lady who's 0.75
00:05:15.240 80 years old, who dies in Central Park on the run. And I said, it's going to be me. I'm going to run
00:05:21.060 for the rest of my life. And he said, well, you're going to have to understand that this was the
00:05:25.120 beginning of the great feminist movement of the sixties. And people were always criticizing 0.78
00:05:29.660 women. They were saying they were barging into places that where they were not welcome and they 0.97
00:05:34.400 can't do it anyway. Yes, that's exactly what they do. Yes, yes, yes. And I suddenly realized that
00:05:41.420 that is what they were going to try to make me do. They were going to try to throw me out of the race
00:05:45.780 to prove I couldn't do it. Well, I knew I could do it. I had run 31 miles in practice. After the race,
00:05:52.020 Switzler said she received plenty of hate mail, but also fan mail. She decided to throw out the
00:05:57.440 negative comments and keep the positive ones to campaign for change. And what did, what did this
00:06:02.860 chick do? She did get married and then divorced and then married and divorced. So you can kind of 1.00
00:06:09.820 see like how feminism infiltrates the mind because at 20 years old, they convinced this chick she was a 1.00
00:06:16.340 victim when really she was actually being quite entitled. And you can kind of see that running kind
00:06:23.580 of became her children. I don't see that she had any kids could be wrong, but I don't see any children
00:06:29.740 that she had. She was twice divorced. So what a lot of times what you see with these feminists is they 1.00
00:06:36.080 don't have kids of their own and something else becomes their kids. And a lot of times it's leading
00:06:43.440 women down a not so great path. You know, I've talked to like a hormone doctor about this and 1.00
00:06:49.780 doing competitive sports naturally makes women more masculine and it kind of turns us into dudes. 1.00
00:06:56.840 And you can see it at the highest level. Like when those chicks are competing in the Olympics, 1.00
00:07:01.440 like they're a bit masculine, they're usually in good shape, but you know, that's kind of what it
00:07:05.940 does to us. And that was a real concern. And in all honesty, women didn't really want to do that. 1.00
00:07:11.680 So now she's had a whole lifetime of pushing women into masculine activities, not saying it's right 1.00
00:07:17.920 or it's wrong, but we can look at the outcomes and she's twice divorced, no kids. And yeah, you know,
00:07:27.300 I guess she ran a marathon. Good for her. But my point of this whole thing is we need to start
00:07:33.820 calling out these double standards. Why can men infiltrate women's spaces and the conservatives 1.00
00:07:41.420 get mad? But if a woman infiltrates a male space, it is championed as equality, as amazing,
00:07:51.080 as a push for fairness. My whole point is the double standards from conservative media.