What Happens When You Swear Off Men feat. Ashli Pollard

Girls Gotta Eat

Ashley Hesseltine

Relationships, Society & Culture, Dating, Comedy, Sex, 977170

4.6 • 29.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2024

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

If you’ve thought about quitting dating, swearing off men altogether, or joining the 4B movement (don’t worry, we define it if you’re not familiar), this episode is for you. We are joined by entrepreneur/marketing expert and recent viral sensation for the no-men movement, Ashli Pollard, to discuss why she decided to stop dating two years ago and how her life has changed since. We talk about living life outside of the male gaze, talking to your friends and family about this choice, sex and pleasure, what people get wrong about the movement, how she sees her future (including motherhood), and how both men and women can help support women better. Before Ashli joins us, we’re sharing the juiciest plane passenger situation we’ve encountered, and how we ended up on contractor-Tok. Enjoy!

Follow Ashli on Tiktok @ashli_p, listen to her podcast Unfiltered Entrepreneur, and read her substack Cocky.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I heard about the 4B movement and I said, you know what?
0:02.6	A lot of my life has been focused around the male gaze.
0:07.4	What would it look like to adopt this for a year?
0:09.9	How would this change my outlook on everything?
0:29.6	Yeah. This podcast is a dear media production.
0:31.7	Hi guys.
0:34.0	Welcome back to another episode of Girls Gotta Eat.
0:35.9	Welcome to December.
0:39.2	I'm wearing my winter white. Oh yeah, you're in all white.
0:43.4	I love December. You do? You really do. I don't get it. I've never understood it.
0:48.9	The holiday. I'm like, I love people constantly tell me. I love New York and December. I'm like, have you been to New York in October? You're like, I would like it to be colder and darker. New York and December is so special.
0:55.6	It's like the most special type.
0:56.9	No, it's not October or June, which are the two elite months.
0:59.7	But I find that it's never like that bitter cold, also now because of global warming,
1:04.8	sorry to get political.
1:05.9	But it's just, it's mild.
1:09.3	The holiday markets, we're not in New York. I'm just over here wax mild. The holiday markets.
1:12.3	We're not in New York.
1:14.8	I'm just over here, waxing poetic about New York.
1:16.2	I'd rather be there than here.
1:17.4	It just doesn't hit the same here.
1:18.6	And we're going to be.
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