Man @durandbernarr is using the success and visibility to amplify IMPORTANT conversations and not solely self-absorbed promotion (which is also well-deserved). It’s very refreshing for someone to still be using their platform to push the culture FORWARD by being real.
Ari Lennox and Lex P say men are hating on women because they realized women don’t want the old “American dream” anymore—go to college, get married, white picket fence, live happily ever after.
“If you’re a successful woman and have accomplished something on your own, men just don’t add anything to your life. I don’t care how good your life is—I can do without you. Men hate that we figured out how to be rich, build careers, and live our best lives. Then they come at us like, ‘You’re 30, never married, no kids.’ They hate that we’re okay being single.”
the meanest thing you do to yourself is pretend you don’t want the things you want. shrink the desire before anyone can see it. call it unrealistic before someone else does. and then walk around with this low grade starvation you can’t name because you buried the appetite so deep even you forgot where you put it. wanting things is dangerous. I know. it opens you up to disappointment and to looking foolish and to reaching for something that might not reach back. want it anyway. the alternative is a life of pretending you’re full.