00:00A feminist can change her own oil.
00:02Okay.
00:02She has no problem, you know, grooming her own mustache.
00:05Okay.
00:06And nightly she burns bras as offerings.
00:10Right.
00:10To the gods of feminism.
00:12I think when you're young, people just tell you it gets better.
00:16And that's very easy to say.
00:19But it's okay to demand that things be better, when right now, where you are.
00:26It's absolute nonsense and a cop-out that private businesses want to talk about freedom of speech.
00:32The point of being a private business is that you can make decisions about the kinds of things that you're
00:37going to promote and support.
00:40Let's not use freedom of speech as the banner for what's happening there.
00:46People are like, oh, we should hear all sides.
00:49But racism is not a side.
00:51Racism is not an opinion.
00:53I used to draw little villages on napkins.
00:56And then I would write stories about those villages and the people I imagined living there.
01:00It was very weird.
01:01And then my parents were like, why are you writing on napkins like a hobo?
01:04And they gave me a typewriter.
01:06And so then I just took off.
01:07I can write pretty much anywhere.
01:09The best place for me to do that is generally on my couch while I'm watching a Law & Order
01:13SVU marathon.
01:16I know my rights don't touch me, yeah?
01:18men.
01:22What was your day on Twitter like?
01:24Well, today, a man I don't know tweeted at me.
01:28It just took my female friend eight pages to realize Roxane Gay's book is garbage.
01:33As you can see, I memorized the negative criticism.
01:37I read that shit once, and it seared on my brain.
01:41Through writing and feminism, I also found that if I was a little bit brave, another
01:46woman might hear me and see me and recognize that none of us are the nothing the world
01:51tries to tell us we are.
01:52My name is Roxanne Gay, and I love tiny baby elephants.
