Confronting Objectification: A Call for Respect and Professionalism

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Ever walked into a room and felt like you're being seen for all the wrong reasons? As I sat down to record this episode on a day that's all about love, I couldn't help but think about the less amorous and more troublesome aspects of being a woman in the business world. The Is Me podcast takes a raw, no-holds-barred look at the objectification and unspoken hurdles women face in professional settings—those moments when the line between business and personal interest blurs, and the battle to be respected for our minds and talents overshadows our work. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello everyone and welcome back to this Is Me
podcast.
Before I begin, I just want tosay happy Valentine's Day.
And right before I started, Istarted laughing to myself,
because what I want to talkabout today it sounds like I'm a
scorn or angry woman, but I'mnot.
It just so happens that I'mrecording it on Valentine's Day.

(00:22):
But this is something that Ihave been thinking about, or
rather that has been botheringme, the last few weeks, and I've
just been so frustrated.
I've been so frustrated withbeing a woman.
Yes, you heard me right.
I've been frustrated with beinga woman, specifically in a
business setting.

(00:43):
It's like anytime I walk in aroom, anytime I have a meeting,
or you hear, oh, I want to workwith you, oh, we can collaborate
, but the truth of the matter isthey want to see if they can
get in my pants.
Listen, I am fully aware that itjust comes with being a woman,
but you have to understand howobjectifying it makes us feel,

(01:08):
and sometimes it just makes usfeel low because we have more to
say.
We are intelligent and I knowmen just think with their dick.
But I need for you to startthinking with your brain and
start showing some sense ofrespect manners.
I know your mother taught youbetter than that and I know I'm

(01:29):
not the only one who deals withit.
One in three women deal with itand it's just so disheartening
because we listen.
Let me put it to you this waywe are able to birth children
for a reason.
We are able to handle morethings than you guys for a

(01:51):
reason.
So we don't need you coming toadd more shit in a place of work
, in a place of business, in aplace where we're trying to
elevate ourselves.
And because of this, I just feellike I've been having to work
triple more than a fucking manbecause I have to sit here and

(02:13):
the first interaction it's likeall right, keep your dick in
your pants and let's just moveon and get to business.
So we have to initially getover that uncomfortability.
I was like, hmm, let me see ifI can try to talk to her, or let
me see if she's just going togive me a chance.
And I've done such a good jobwith training myself on how to

(02:37):
kind of steer the conversationand let them know like it's not
fucking happening.
So let's just move on.
But do you know how that initself is just draining already
and then to have to sit thereand put our business hat on.
I just had to let it out,because it is just really

(03:00):
meetings that I have,interactions that I have, just
it's just fucking exhausting.
And listen, I am very gratefulGod blessed me with a beautiful
smile, with great personality, agood set of racks, but damn,
it's not like I'm out there halfnaked and I know that that

(03:21):
doesn't mean anything becausepeople love to have, you know,
their imagination go wild.
But please, the next time youwant to flirt with a woman, just
make sure that it'sreciprocated, because then it
gets to a point where she'sstarting to feel harassed and it

(03:43):
is just frankly disgusting.
You look thirsty, you lookdesperate and you fuck up the
money.
It's either you want sex or youwant money, and I think you get
a better reaction with money.
All right, that is all I havefor today.
So just note to self the nexttime you have a business meeting

(04:03):
with a woman, show her a littlebit of fucking respect and if
she's initiating it, have at it,but if she's not, respect her.
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