Hello and welcome to another episode of Iway with Jameela Jamell. I as always hope you're well.

Wouldn't it be amazing if one of these times I'm just like, I hope you're shit. I hate you.

But no, I hope you're well and I am okay. I've had a bit of an odd stressful emotional week.

Just not only because of what's going on in the world, but also just some personal frustrations with

being a woman. I found myself yesterday morning having a big old cry, which I never do,

because I'm English and also just a very damaged robot. But I had a big old cry for almost an hour

about just how much I hate being a woman sometimes. Obviously that's just a passing moment

and not when I encourage because I love women. I think women are magical. But also, I think it's

okay to talk about, I think we should be able to talk about it. Sometimes it just gets too much.

The double standards, the misogyny, the rampant hypocrisy, just the unkindness, the traps that

are built to set us up. Just how much extra homework we're given, all the lies that we're told,

all the information that's held back from us, all the blame, the shape, just take a second, just

because it's a lot. I know it's not positive thinking to bring that up, but I also think sometimes

we need to look at it in order to be galvanised to fight it and to change it. It's okay to sometimes

just be really fucked off with all of it. And just really like, how is this still happening? But also,

my life would have been so much easier if I had been a man, not to say that men don't have their

own things and the patriarchy hasn't done a number on them and it must be awful to not be able to

ever express yourself and have all these different types of weird pressures and shame. But it's

definitely an easier ride. So I don't know why I've told you that, but I think it's really important

to not present myself as having it together now. I know I talk a lot about my past and all the

troubles I've had, but I don't know if I often open up to you about my kind of moments of struggle

these days. And so I thought I'd just tell you that if you ever feel like that, you're not a

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