JustPearlyThings - July 11, 2023


This Modern Woman Could NOT See The TRUTH In This


Episode Stats

Length

8 minutes

Words per Minute

190.82108

Word Count

1,695

Sentence Count

127

Misogynist Sentences

19

Hate Speech Sentences

4


Summary

In this episode, we discuss the controversial comments made by a bus driver in response to the comments made about Black people wanting to become bus drivers. We also talk about the role of women in the entertainment industry and how they have been conditioned to be more like white people.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 So this was her response after the comments.
00:00:04.400 So after the 50,000 plus comments posted on social, I only saw a handful that even
00:00:10.400 considered the possibility of a bus owner being a more aspirational position and recognizing that
00:00:17.360 I am actually speaking and pouring into the ascension of black men when I said what I said.
00:00:23.620 But see, no, some of y'all were too busy naming and shaming me personally and black women in
00:00:29.120 general as undesirable gold diggers and much worse.
00:00:34.020 Now, I suspect that some of y'all are the same men that were bringing home C's and D's on
00:00:38.560 your report cards, only to then be coddled by parents that said, well, that's OK, as
00:00:43.260 long as you're doing your best.
00:00:45.340 Well, listen, I love and believe in the excellence of black men.
00:00:49.200 So no, my dear, C's and D's or any other form of mediocrity is not OK.
00:00:54.820 No, I will not create a soft place for you or anybody that I love to fall comfortably
00:01:00.280 into the bigotry of low expectations.
00:01:03.660 So I'm going to say one more time, there's absolutely nothing wrong with driving a bus.
00:01:08.580 My mother, Gloria, drove one for years.
00:01:11.380 But could it be that black America has been sold a narrative of average, regular and typical
00:01:17.460 being good enough for us?
00:01:19.480 Well, see, that's called white supremacy.
00:01:22.900 And in this case, it takes the form of conditioning black Americans to happily accept being a permanent
00:01:29.580 American underclass.
00:01:32.080 But see, because I know the truth about black folk in America.
00:01:35.780 No, average is not and will never be good enough for me.
00:01:40.360 And the gag is, I don't think it's good enough for you either.
00:01:44.480 What do you guys think of a response?
00:01:48.860 I'm not sure what race got to do with anything.
00:01:50.860 Yeah, I didn't agree with the whole white, I think that was a bit extreme to tying race
00:01:55.880 to it.
00:01:56.380 Actually, I didn't even watch the response before, but I was like, wait, what?
00:02:00.640 Yeah, I don't think we needed, I don't think that was necessary because I don't like, I
00:02:05.120 feel like we need to be responsible for ourselves, like not always bringing the race guard sometimes.
00:02:08.740 But I just think I get, that's kind of what I was saying.
00:02:12.540 I just feel like you are so entitled to your standard and what you want and accept in your
00:02:16.780 life.
00:02:17.260 However, you need to be aware of the repercussions of that.
00:02:20.620 So if you're going for this top 1%, just be aware that you may not ever get it and accept
00:02:26.200 that.
00:02:26.700 But you're still entitled to have that as long as you're not disrespecting other people.
00:02:31.440 That is it.
00:02:32.240 I think it's as simple as that.
00:02:34.580 What do you guys think?
00:02:35.920 I think her response was lit.
00:02:39.360 I feel like people are a bit too comfortable.
00:02:42.120 It's like, I don't know if you guys ever saw that interview.
00:02:45.000 Obviously Kim Kardashian is probably the wrong person to say it because she definitely had
00:02:47.760 advantages.
00:02:48.960 But that interview when she was like, y'all need to work fucking hard.
00:02:51.840 And then everybody got onto her as well.
00:02:53.540 It's like, I feel like in general, people have like a certain comfortability.
00:02:56.960 And I think with her, I don't think she was saying, well, the whole white supremacy thing
00:03:00.220 was definitely a stretch.
00:03:01.020 But I feel like in general, I guess as like ethnic people, we're more comfortable with
00:03:05.120 jobs like bus drivers, because in general, we're kind of like pushed down when it comes
00:03:09.740 to office jobs and stuff.
00:03:10.500 We might not get that application.
00:03:11.860 So I feel like I get that point.
00:03:13.640 But in general, like I said, I said it from the beginning.
00:03:16.600 I said her conversation, she sparked that to wake up a bus driver and get him to work
00:03:21.280 further.
00:03:21.620 I don't think she was doing it to like knock them down.
00:03:24.280 I personally think it's motivational.
00:03:26.200 If I was a bus driver, I would quit my job.
00:03:28.220 But she's acting like she's so much better than him.
00:03:30.920 But that's what I don't get.
00:03:31.860 That's not what I take that though.
00:03:34.320 Because she literally said, she literally said, try for harder or better.
00:03:38.000 But it's like, well, why don't you try for better?
00:03:39.880 When it's like all you're doing, like, I just think, wait, wait.
00:03:42.920 I just think it's mad that all she's doing is talking and she thinks she's better than
00:03:46.940 a bus driver.
00:03:48.240 All you're doing is talking.
00:03:50.040 And we have so much privilege being women where, especially when we're in entertainment,
00:03:56.980 it's like, we have a privilege that men don't have.
00:03:59.540 And you're going to shit on a guy who has a job that makes society run.
00:04:03.660 But I don't think she said that she thinks she's better.
00:04:06.860 She literally said she wants better for them.
00:04:09.020 And for herself.
00:04:10.340 Okay.
00:04:10.560 But if she said she wouldn't date one.
00:04:12.900 Because she doesn't want that.
00:04:13.980 Yeah.
00:04:14.200 Like, if, if, that's why I said it's like, maybe a cleaner or like an Uber driver might
00:04:18.800 be happy to drive a bus, to date a bus driver.
00:04:21.740 But if she's a news reporter and she just happens to not want to date a bus driver.
00:04:25.480 Personally, I don't, I don't see an issue with it.
00:04:27.920 I think there's, okay.
00:04:29.060 I think there's nothing wrong with being aspirational.
00:04:32.200 But I think when you look at things from a factual perspective, the type of person that
00:04:36.980 she's looking for is probably a part of, is part of the 10 and 20%.
00:04:40.740 So that's why I feel like there's like a good 70% of women trying to grab this 20 or
00:04:46.120 10% of men that will most likely not going to be able to obtain because there's such a
00:04:51.420 small portion.
00:04:52.680 So I feel like that's where she's being.
00:04:55.280 And that's why I'm understanding everyone when they're saying sometimes it's good to
00:04:58.420 set up for less.
00:04:59.580 But if she's in her ways where she just feels like, okay, do you know what?
00:05:02.540 I can do better.
00:05:03.340 And probably she's been in rooms of people who have been doing better than just for
00:05:06.900 like, you just let her be.
00:05:08.280 Because at the same time, she didn't say she wants a billionaire.
00:05:11.100 Like maybe she'd just prefer a train driver or a boat driver.
00:05:15.400 Like you really can't tell.
00:05:16.980 That's what I'm saying is like, she's entitled to her preference.
00:05:20.020 She doesn't have to be, you know, like a billionaire herself to not want to date a bus driver
00:05:26.060 because she's not saying she wants a billionaire.
00:05:27.580 Do you know what a chance of being married is?
00:05:29.440 No.
00:05:30.500 What is it?
00:05:30.800 That age.
00:05:31.680 Hit me with it.
00:05:32.300 Yeah.
00:05:32.900 Yeah.
00:05:33.160 12%.
00:05:34.360 But that doesn't mean she should first.
00:05:35.860 I'll be in that song sometime.
00:05:36.740 So my opinion with this, I feel like as a woman, you should have standards, but then
00:05:41.180 there is a time and place like at that age, your standards should go a bit lower.
00:05:45.120 Let's be honest.
00:05:46.240 And then my opinion, if you've got a good career and you feel like so hard for your career,
00:05:49.640 why can't you then take care and wear that?
00:05:51.620 You want to do that, right?
00:05:52.880 Do it then.
00:05:53.380 Why do you need now someone?
00:05:54.760 Yeah.
00:05:55.040 You wanted to do that.
00:05:56.180 You chose that.
00:05:56.980 Then do it.
00:05:57.780 Why now you want someone with high value?
00:05:59.960 That's my point.
00:06:00.840 It don't make sense.
00:06:01.560 That's my point because at 22, she could have married a provider.
00:06:05.740 She could have had been in that position, but she chose to go after it.
00:06:10.180 That's fine.
00:06:11.080 I'm not knocking you for it.
00:06:12.540 But then you get to that position and now you require someone that makes more.
00:06:17.120 It's like, well, why did you go for that?
00:06:18.880 Yeah.
00:06:18.980 My question is, why does she feel like she is above?
00:06:24.320 What is it that she's doing?
00:06:25.420 I just want to know, like, what is it that she's doing?
00:06:27.420 She's clearly doing something correct for her to have that opinion.
00:06:31.160 But what part of it made you think that she thinks she's above?
00:06:34.660 I don't know, like a newscast or something.
00:06:36.720 News is important.
00:06:37.620 She's on TV every day.
00:06:38.640 She must have done something great for her to feel that.
00:06:43.540 You know.
00:06:44.800 But what part of what she said made you feel like she felt that she was better than you?
00:06:48.980 No, I think that she must be doing something great to have that opinion.
00:06:52.920 I think she's just delusional.
00:06:55.060 This is what they say.
00:06:55.960 Listening to the reporter's response, that's why she's 39 and alone.
00:06:59.360 She should buy a dog.
00:07:00.200 It has nothing to do with race.
00:07:01.760 Because, like, my whole point is he's in a job that makes society run.
00:07:06.360 And none of, like, women in general, none of us would be able to do anything
00:07:09.380 if the men didn't build society to a point that it runs.
00:07:13.340 And so now it's like the men are building and running society.
00:07:17.100 And then we come in and get these cushy jobs and act like we're better than the men
00:07:21.440 that are doing the hard jobs.
00:07:23.280 So it's not even that she's not a high-value woman.
00:07:25.460 It's that she is perhaps too dominant, in a sense, not feminine enough.
00:07:30.060 Because why is it that she's got a good career?
00:07:32.420 She looks good.
00:07:33.600 Why are you not married and settled down?
00:07:35.500 Yeah, no, she's very...
00:07:36.040 What's wrong with her for her?
00:07:38.020 Correct, and so that's why I say she's delusional, because she has this ego where it's like,
00:07:43.580 okay, if you're 40 and you're unmarried, you're basically a loser by women's standards.
00:07:48.300 You're a loser.
00:07:49.340 And so she's a loser out here, and she's shitting on an average dude.
00:07:55.800 Let her live in her delusion.
00:07:57.240 You know what?
00:07:57.600 Sometimes delusion pays off.
00:07:59.080 So let her live in her delusion, and she may find, and she will have to accept.
00:08:04.960 What's the definition of insanity?
00:08:07.000 Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results.
00:08:10.160 Exactly.
00:08:11.340 That's my point.
00:08:12.960 There's no context here with this lady.
00:08:14.780 That's the hardest thing.
00:08:15.660 We don't even know.
00:08:16.080 She might have just came out of a marriage that he's just cheated, so she's left because
00:08:20.000 she's confident in herself and has the self-worth to leave.
00:08:23.260 In that example, she's not a loser.
00:08:25.440 I think she's actually doing the right thing.