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Around The Way Curls

Ep 273. Do We Need Black Men?

Around The Way Curls

Antoinette Lee & Shanti Mayers

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Education

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

This week, we get provocative & discuss whether or not we “need” men. Inspired by Megan Thee Stallion’s proclamation at Essence Fest- “We don’t need men. We want ya’ll, but we don’t need ya’ll” - we dissect the statement and share our interpretations of “need” vs “want”. Finally, we explore & acknowledge what deeper wounds may be the source of our gender wars.
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0:00.0

Do a little faster!

0:16.1

Yeah!

0:17.0

He's still got it!

0:18.3

It's your girl shanty.

0:19.9

And it's anzi nettz.

0:21.4

And we are Around the Way girls.

0:25.2

Join us as we share our unique life experiences.

0:27.7

a.k.a. tell all our business and explore both the profound and the profane because duality is a thing.

0:42.7

Come, you bitch. Why would you not come here? I was feeling it. I was in it, girl.

0:49.7

Why are my texts to jazz going through as green? Does she block me?

0:55.7

Welcome to another week of Around the Way curls. We are here on a Thursday back like we never left.

1:06.7

Last week I went to New York and I was asked to talk to a young class of the Yut Dem about business, about the podcast,

1:21.7

and you know, I did my spiel. I talked to them. It's kind of, again, it's very frightening to talk to children.

1:29.7

I realized because they just stare at you. You wonder what they're thinking. I was like, am I boring you? Like, what is happening?

1:37.7

But afterwards, my friend who knows me very well was like, wow, it's really interesting to see you.

1:46.7

You're doing amazing things. You've done these amazing things and how, like, your self-deprecation and cutting yourself down is embedded in your speech.

1:55.7

It's like just a part of the way that you fucking talk. And I was like, shut up.

2:06.7

I was like, what the fuck you talking to? I'm terrible. I can't do anything right. I'll never go to learn.

2:13.7

Self-deprecate, self-deprecation.

2:16.7

Oh my god. It was really hard for me to see that. You hear that? Because to me, I didn't do it once.

2:23.7

I wasn't like, I'm not even aware that I'm doing it. You know, like, when I make my little jokes off, I can't tell if you're serious in that.

2:33.7

No, like, when he said that, I was like, what? I was being self-deprecating on there. He was like, yeah.

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