Babbbyyyyyy if you thought I felt alienated before, ouuuuuf. The girls really honed in on the shortest paragraph and chose to centre the narrative around that vs what it was actually meant to be, calling out women for contributing to the same bullshit men make us deal with. I saw some girls dog me because "atleast the girlboss takedowns got published in NYT" or Winny's "those who can't build moan" or whatever the hell it was. How is this constructive? How is it any different than what you're upset at me with? (it's not different, I'm just not established in this space) Hey maybe me even writing this is contradictory to that but guess what? I don't give a fuck! It doesn't mean the problem doesn't exist! I’m not exempt from the problem. I know I’m complicit too. And no, I don't have solutions aside from speaking about it publicly lol
Let me use this time to be a little more concise & clear; The current political climate is shit. Especially in the country that majority of you reside in or at least travel to frequently. For the life of me, I cannot understand how or why ANYONE in the space can support what is happening. Is it because they're white? have money? I don't know but it's clear that as long as they're making money, it doesn't matter what the President's orders are in regards to womens rights and/or health...you know things that like, directly impact your everyday life. I touched on this slightly in something I wrote back in February about crypto x trump where I question the industry as a whole. The reason why I singled out the girls was because I genuinely thought we were better than this? Seeing the girls support Trump just because he's pro-crypto was sad...where's the forethought? I know this doesn't correlate with the previous article but stick with me
Seriously, I think often times in tech we forget that there are people outside of this world (I was super guilty of this 2022-2023 when working for startups) who don't have it as well as we do. In the exact same country you guys are cashing in on your $2M pre seed, are people who can barely afford food right now. Don't come at me with the "they need to work harder" Shut the fuck up, half of these people have been laid off due to no fault of their own, you know things like the actual economy, tariffs, etc.
And if I'm sounding crazy to you, congrats because you likely have had to never worry about these things before! However, some of your users do. Or at least future users, considering this space is so damn small and I'm assuming you wanna onboard, yeah?
I understand we live under capitalism and you kinda have to play the game to survive but like, then do just that? Why waste your breath advocating for something you don't actually align with irl? I know I'm gonna get someone saying "well i did xyz everyday that benefits women!" ok, cool! that's not what I'm writing about!! Moving on!!
Have you guys ever heard of intersectionality? You guys loooooove to advocate for the perfect white woman, completely forgetting that women of colour, trans, disabled etc still hold space underneath the feminism umbrella. Last time I checked y'all still try to get the attention of people who are racist but like, as long as they're "pro-women" it's cool, yeah?
^what she said.
aaaaaaanyways my point wasn't to CaLl a SpEcIfIc GiRl OuT – but to call out a specific behaviour that I see time, and time again.. and how it's a symptom of a much bigger issue outside of social media. If you still choose to see that entire article as me attacking one girl, then idk man touch grass or something this weekend ❤️ ily
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A thought-provoking piece that invites readers to reflect.
Chloe speaks, I listen.
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