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Female Celebs Aren’t Our Role Models—And That’s Okay
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Jun 5, 2025
Why Are We Still Expecting Female Celebrities to Be Perfect?? Why do we keep expecting female celebrities to be flawless role models in 2024? In this video, we dive deep into why society holds female stars to impossible standards, while giving men a pass. It’s time to stop putting women on pedestals and start allowing them to be human. #Celebrities #FemaleEmpowerment #CancelCulture #RoleModels #CelebrityCulture Keyword tags: Self Improvement podcast Feminism & Empowerment Self-Improvement & Personal Growth Mindset mental wellness @Sanitylicious
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hey my beautiful people welcome to Sun
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and delicious I am so glad that you are
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here and there's something I want to
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talk about something that gets under my
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skin and eats why are we still expecting
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female celebrities to be perfect role
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models in this day and age like honestly
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why why why why
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why what is it about a woman stepping
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into the public eye that makes us
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instantly think she needs to be some
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Flawless beon of uh morality and Grace
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it's so exhausting it's so exhausting
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for them um for us and for the society
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as a whole first of all let's get one
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thing straight celebrities are not
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Saints they are performers entertainers
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and artists their job is to Sing Act
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model or dance to entertain people not
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to be the moral compass for the entire
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world and yet we we keep placing these
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um ridiculous pressures onto them to
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always say or do the right things be
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politically correct and Lead social
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movements like what
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it's like we've forgotten that they are
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just people people who frankly didn't
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sign up to be anyone's life coach take a
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look at the headlines huh take a look at
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every time every time a female celebrity
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makes a misstep whether it's poorly wed
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tweet or just getting caught in some
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personal Scandal the world loses its
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mind like this is not an angel this is a
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an Entertainer let me call thement
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entertainers cuz that's what they do
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people are quick to consel them drag
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them on social media or write long long
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pieces about how they failed their fans
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how they failed their supporters like
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it's so brutal but here's the thing when
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we when when did we become
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there when it when did it become their
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job to be perfect now answer that when
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think about it we don't hold male
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celebrities to the same impossible
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standards I just um was talking about
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this on my other video um talking about
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why are we so obsessed with um the
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relationships which um female
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celebrities get into we are so so
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obsessed with what's happening in their
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personal lives sure they do get dragged
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and these male guys they do get dragged
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when the mess up but it's not as deep as
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when a a woman gets dragged when a male
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celebrity does something questionable
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it's brushed off as boys will always be
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boys oh he made a mistake he'll grow up
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there's a room for for them to mess up
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grow and move on but with female
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celebrities it's another thing I don't
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know and it's it's it's so not easy to
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be a woman it's not easy to be a
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woman women are expected to be Flawless
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or
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or their career is
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threatened their career is threatened
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that that's the thing that's the thing
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when you're a woman who's in a
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career well why do we do this why I I
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just want to know why part of the
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society's obsession with woman being
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pure and perfect historically women have
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been held to to these un attainable
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standards of being ladylike nurturing
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and morally Superior even in this day
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and age 2024 we haven't fully shaken off
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these um these sexist um
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expectations we still want our female
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celebrities to be this goddesses you
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know the embodiment of everything good
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kind and
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selfless we want them to use their
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platforms to for for social justice to
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fight for equality to be Progressive and
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always say the right things at the right
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time but let's be real most of these
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women aren't even equipped to handle
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that if we just being honest they are
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entertainers they are entertainers their
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job is to perform expecting them to
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suddenly become politically activists or
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social justice Warriors is is not only
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fair but also are so unrealistic for
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many of them they probably don't even
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want that responsibility they don't even
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know what to do when they are put in
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those
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positions and who can blame them imagine
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being held accountable for every single
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thing you say or do having to constantly
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work on a tide rope just to avoid
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upsetting someone people don't even know
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you at the time it's exhausting just
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thinking about it it's like you're in
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you are in jail because people are
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expecting so much of you people don't
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even know you take meona for example
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she's praised for for being um a
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powerful voice and the black lives
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matter movement for promoting feminism
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through her music and for embodying
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black excellents and while that's
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incredible it's also a lot of pressure
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because every time she releas or
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something that isn't um obviously
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political or empowering in people start
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questioning if she's still worthy of
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being a role model like can she just
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drop a Cy song without having to save
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the world with every
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album like what and I've also noticed
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that um when there's some political
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political issues that are happening
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people always want to hear from
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celebrities what does we have to say
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about this what does Tyler Swift like
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why why why do you care these are not
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politics these are these are performers
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why why are they being included in such
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important World issues I I just want to
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know and don't even get me started on on
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how quick we are to flip the narrative
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when these women fell short when they
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fall short of our expectations oh my god
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let's take a Miley Cyrus you remember
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back in her Han monana days she was this
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squeaky clean Disney role model that
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young girls idolized then she grew up
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explored her sexuality and started
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expressing herself in ways that didn't
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fit that cookie cutter image and what
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happened she was dragged for it she was
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so dragged for it it's like people don't
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understand it people grow up she can't
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be Hana Montana for the rest of her life
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she's a grown woman now she's a grown
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woman and she sure do want to make some
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changes in her singing career people
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were so angry that she ruined the idea
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of what a female role model should be
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but Miley was never asking to be
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anyone's role model she was just living
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her
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life imagine such an entitlement type of
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a society and that's where we get things
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Twisted we forget that these women
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aren't our friends they aren't our
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mentors and they sure as hell aren't
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responsible for how we live our lives
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they are just women who who happen to be
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in the spotlight doing a job you know
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expecting them to always be the parrans
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of virtue it's not only unrealistic but
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it's also so unfair guys it's so unfair
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some so some of these um celebrities all
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they know is what they know and if she's
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a singer that's all she knows she knows
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how to write songs she knows how to sing
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but people will be expecting so much
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from her people will be expecting so
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much from her want wanting to hear her
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political opinions and oh my god when
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she's about to say something they put
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her right under the M the
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microscope under the microscope another
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thing we need to talk about is how the
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media feeds into this the media loves
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building woman up just so that they can
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tear them down why why is it so
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difficult to be a woman female
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celebrities are put on these a massive
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pedestales hailed as queens or icons but
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the moment the moment they show any sign
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of imperfection the media comes for them
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it's like they are waiting for these
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women to mess up so they can write the
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take down
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peace it's not easy being a woman
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look at the way we treat someone like
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Megan Marco she's the perfect
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example she she first entered the public
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eye as Prince um Harry's girlfriend she
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she no no no this was not the first time
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remember she's an actor yes she's an
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actor but with Prince Harry being in a
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picture she she became she became even
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more famous people were now recognizing
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her because this was such a big deal
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this was such a big deal a black girl
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and a white Prince you know she was
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painted as this fairy tale princess
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perfect pois and a breath of fresh air
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but as soon as she started speaking
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about the mistreatment she faced from
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the royal family and the British press
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the narrative flipped s she was seen as
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difficult manipulative
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why that's the question why because she
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didn't fit into the perfect role model
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mold
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anymore she she she she did not fit into
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that box that people wanted to place her
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inside of she she had she had the nerve
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to be vocal about her struggles and made
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people uncomfortable and that's why they
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didn't like her and still don't because
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one thing about Megan she's going to
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speak up and I like her for that I love
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for that but here's the truth here's the
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truth these women they owe us nothing
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they owe us nothing they are human
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beings with flaws and lives that are so
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complex you know we don't fully
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understand and it's because they Al
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everyone have their own lives and their
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own problems whether you are moneyed or
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not holding them to a standard of
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perfection is not only unrealistic it's
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damaging it's damaging it creates this
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toxic culture where we expect women to
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be everything for everyone all the time
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and that's not that's not possible we
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need to realize that celebrities life
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are their own lives and celebrity
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culture isn't even real life we need to
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realize these things these people are
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living in a bubble they have te teams of
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PR people stylists and social media
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managers corrupting their Public Image
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what we see isn't always a reflection of
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who they really are so why are we
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placing so much weight on what they say
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or do why are we expecting them to be
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perfect when the image they present to
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us has been so heavily
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curated can you answer that it's time to
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stop expecting celebrities to leave need
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the charge if we want real change we
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have to be that change if we want to be
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real change we have to work on being
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those role models for the world we need
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to start looking at the people in our
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own lives the activists the Educators
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the people who are actually out there
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doing the work let's stop idolizing
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celebrities and expecting them to carry
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the weight of our social movement and
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Improvement they are not here to save us
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they are here to entertain us
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