'Is Having A Boyfriend Embarrassing Now?' Why Women Are Decentering Men and Relationships

To My Sisters

Self-improvement, Education, Society & Culture, Relationships

4.9 • 917 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

After Chante Joseph's Vogue Article titled 'Is Having A Boyfriend Embarrassing Now?' took the internet by storm, many people around the globe took to social media to share their thoughts; in this episode, you're favourite online sisters share their answer to the thought-provoking question.

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0:00.0	We built a school in Ghana.
0:02.3	Like you guys really came through for this sisterhood and we've done bits as a podcast
0:07.3	in just five years.
0:08.5	This podcast has literally reached millions of people and we couldn't have done that without
0:12.9	you.
0:13.2	So five years.
0:14.4	Jeez.
0:14.9	We're going to be talking about whether it's embarrassing to have a boyfriend.
0:19.6	Yes.
0:20.1	Yes.
0:20.4	Yes.
0:20.5	Yes. You are your relationship status. Your womanhood is validated by a boyfriend. Yes, yes, yes.
0:21.0	You are your relationship status.
0:22.8	Your womanhood is validated by a man validating it.
0:26.3	Yeah.
0:26.4	By picking you.
0:27.3	The embarrassing thing that men do as well, in of itself needs to be highlighted.
0:32.4	If you are monogamous, we've come to discover a lot of people.
0:35.2	All right.
0:35.7	Let's actually hold men accountable for their bad behaviour because y'all being bad.
0:40.9	The amount of girls that I've had to tell, like, calm down.
0:45.1	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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