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[Applause]
Wow how’s it going well obviously my
name is reine dove I’m a model active ER
active ER activist actor and gender
capitalist and I am nervous as heck but
I’m here for a reason so now if there
are any journalists in the audience and
you’re wondering oh shit what pronoun do
I use for this person a pronoun is just
a sound for me and on listening for in
that sound is positivity so be creative
you can even call me if you want to now
I’m just gonna get a little more
comfortable and make you guys a little
bit more comfortable take off some
things I feel like according to my birth
certificate this is what I should be
wearing technically let’s just get this
down here oh yeah that’s so nice
little red dress in a slicker that’s
nice mm-hmm better so cata bra you have
to go with that this was a freest point
in my life see that little face kind of
like I had no expectations I was just a
lonely sperm traveling with about 250
million other sperm things are pretty
great back then no one told me what to
wear or how to be or how to dress and I
started out life a winner I mean I beat
250 million other sperm to get to this
egg it’s a race that’s bigger than 4.9
thousand times the size of the New York
City Marathon so uh yeah I pretty much
shot out the gate and just you know did
what I got to do and that was awesome
see I was doing just fine until I popped
out of the vagina and then the doctors
ordered three simple words that was
shackle me into my first social prison
it’s a girl
the minute they said those words I was
no longer simply me I suddenly became
she and at that point I also became
measured against everything as she was
supposed to be how I dress talk act love
my level of attractiveness I know guys
calm yourselves even how I gained or
respect or trust the path to obtain my
wildest dreams was suddenly divided in
half and filled with potholes of social
societal pressures that urged me to go
in a certain direction all because of
what was right for my genitals now
here’s the thing as a she here’s how I
measured up it wasn’t pretty I found out
I was actually pretty low on the totem
pole there’s me so soft so sweet that’s
my mother big shout out to mom hi mom
thank you I know she’s a good-looking
woman see the thing is is I looked
around on television on billboards and
in magazines and I just didn’t see the
she that was me
I didn’t see any girl that looked like
me and then I’m gonna quote a lot of
times when I say girl or guy that’s for
a different TED talk but I’m not really
into those kinds of labels see I was
tall and I was muscular I grew up on a
farm that check out that swimsuit bottle
awesome
man yeah Sports definitely pretty
awesome at that fashion sense on point
and I had a lot of weird haircuts in
fact I actually aesthetically looked a
lot more like my first boyfriend in high
school and I see that right there the
resemblance sometimes I wonder if I
dated them just for pure narcissism you
know it’s just like I mean look at that
just one more time look at that oh yeah
we’re gonna leave that creepy face up
there for one second and because of
these things I grew up thinking I guess
I’m an ugly girl maybe I wasn’t meant to
be the housewife material and maybe I
wasn’t meant to be arm candy I figured
out that maybe the she that I was
supposed to be was the girl who survives
the apocalypse and go
on the escapades with her motorcycle in
her shotgun and her German Shepherd that
was my place in life I was gonna be like
Resident Evil you know that was me yeah
you know I’m not a housewife I’m just
gonna shoot some zombies that’s my
destiny right there no be real with me
okay
and if some of you guys might be like
you know crazy miracle workers here but
raise your hand if you chose the body
that you were born in I’m not talking
trance and I’m not talking about like
plastic surgery or anything weird like
that I just literally mean before you
popped out of that vagina did you choose
the body that you came out in no we
didn’t choose this it’s not my fault
that I was born into this vessel and
it’s not your fault that you were born
into this vessel so why is society
punishing me why are they punishing you
why are they getting in your way because
of it if it’s not your fault why are
they limiting you now fast forward when
I was 19 I became a wilderness
firefighter and this was my part of my
attractive career right here check it
out I know a lot of you guys might think
that that’s me right there with the
chainsaw kind of like looking kind of
douchey you doing this um no that’s not
me I wish I could be that miracle worker
see I walked into a room but
predominantly men these men okay and the
first thing they did was call me he my
whole life I thought it was an ugly girl
I’d never been mistaken as a he before I
would have corrected them but then I saw
the way they were talking about the
women in the room and they were
measuring their usefulness
based on how attractive they were and I
realized I had a choice be the ugly girl
or be a dude so I decided to be a dude
and I was gonna tell them the truth
later you know like work really hard and
then like you’re like surprised haha put
shoulder punch but then later turned
into 11 months so it’s a little bit of
time passed before that situation
happened right there
and one time in the middle of fire
fighting I was actually celebrating with
all the men no women allowed and we were
around the fire and somebody said
something that I would consider to be
the most manly thing that has ever been
said we’re all drinking whiskey kind of
illegally and like hanging out around
the fire and one guy says if I die I
need you to promise me that you were
gonna go back to the place that you last
saw me and scoop up some of my ashes and
send it home to my mother I was like
shit got serious man okay we were just
sitting there I felt like a chest hair
pop out and then everybody took a swig
of whiskey and then they all did
something I did not expect they stood up
walk to the edge of the sandstone cliff
in the middle of the desert and they all
started to pee off the cliff together in
solidarity
I’ve never peed in front of these guys
before ever
usually they thought I think they
probably thought like I had to poop a
lot because I just like always you know
went into a place where I could hide or
squat so suddenly I found myself
shoulder to shoulder with these guys
kind of like okay I guess I got to do
this and I took two hands and I’m kind
of like funneling it out trying to get
it out away from me and it got all over
me and I gave me the nickname hobo which
in America means homeless person because
I smelled like urine for a week later on
when they found out that I was a woman
they said that’s impossible and the
medic was like why and they’re like well
we saw his dick he had to hold it with
two hands and my response today is that
a dick doesn’t make a man a man
especially at noon okay at first I
actually thought that being perceived as
a guy was pretty great I was like I got
a golden ticket I found that maybe it
was like a superpower you know like the
ability to be a young white man in
America yeah it was a pretty damn
awesome power for most things but then
over those 11 months well he certainly
did experience and improved quality of
life I also began to experience
disadvantages that I’d never experienced
as a woman and that a lot of guys don’t
really feel like they can talk about for
starters I wasn’t allowed to express
unapologetic sadness or fear
I couldn’t express these things and if I
did I better be able to just suck it up
and show that I’m able to resolve so if
I cry I have to be like but don’t worry
about me bruh you know show their punch
I couldn’t argue full force with another
female firefighter so if a female
firefighter and I were having a conflict
she could yell at me she could even slap
me across the face and she would be
applauded for standing up to herself
against a tall white guy but if I were
to slap her across the face being
perceived as male I would probably go to
jail and then my life would be ruined
now
by the way nobody should ever slap you
could anyone across the face like ever
you know don’t don’t do it I’m not
promoting violence here but if you have
to like in a defense you know anyway and
lastly I realized and there are a lot of
things I realize but these are the top
three I realized that man I didn’t get
any freebies okay as a woman you know
free drinks like free entry into like
places and like you know sometimes you
can’t have like these meltdowns and
people like it’s okay you know no
freebies as a dude none I was expected
to be able to pay my way into everything
and not just pay my way into everything
but also have money in the chamber to
cover someone else I had to have the
ability to pull someone else’s weight
just in case so what I’m saying guys is
you know some of you may have it a lot
easier because of your male status but
I’m telling you you don’t have it easy
either and a lot of people don’t talk
about that so what does this mean
it basically means no matter how we
express ourselves in gender or sex
meinen society’s gonna screw us over we
are screwed it’s not fair my golden
ticket turned out to be just another
flawed form of life that I could live so
I decided to say fuck it fuck it I’ll be
both I’ll be all I’ll be whatever I have
to be to get the most out of my life
because I don’t have time to be
disadvantaged I don’t have time to stand
in a line I’d be polite and be like oh
I’m sorry I’m a girl I can’t do that
we’re like oh yeah lady it’s okay like
you know if I go ahead of me you know I
don’t have time for that shit I got
important things to do on this planet
okay
and now I make a living off from it and
that mentality what I did was first I
studied the common factors society
affiliates with different genders and
sexes and I began to emulate those
qualities various situations to get the
most out of them so when I was in a
situation that was more advantageous to
be seen as female
I would arch my back soften my gestures
and raise my voice hi how’s it going
nice to see you
all right when I was in a situation that
it was seen as more beneficial to be
male I’ve brought my shoulders forward I
made a lot of eye contact I made sure
that everything I said was intentional I
lowered my voice put up my dick
sometimes
just kidding I do that sometimes you
have to I mean you know you’re wrong
situation okay and suddenly when I
started doing this every day my life
exploded in a huge way and after I
accidentally become a fashion model
separate TED talk and actor I found
myself being able to portray all sexes
and genders making twice the amount of
money I would have as an ugly girl and
twice the amount of money I would have
as a decent-looking guy I mean I’m just
not mean to brag but you know hey ok so
now when you google my name you’re gonna
see pictures like this you’re gonna see
some photos like this check that out
right there that’s nice no real alcohol
in that though this one that’s the
Brooklyn Bridge
this one right here nice little lingerie
this one nice it’s a make up campaign
that’s my first Vogue Italia shot oh and
sometimes this Google Images and I were
like having a problem because this thing
when you type in rained of sometimes
it’s at the top of the image thing I
don’t know how many people are looking
up this pigeon but it is very fucking
famous it is so annoying
now after a period of time in the
industry okay I decided to coin this
term I mean this way of life and I
called it gender capitalism now gender
capitalism is when you recognize
society’s perception of gender and make
use of it in the most advantageous way
you capitalize on it for me that
literally means presenting myself as
what society deems to be male or female
and to give a situation to get the most
out of it cuz I don’t have time to fuck
around it’s your fault if you think I’m
something else now I’m gonna give you an
example of how I would use personally
with my superpower jeanna capitalism
Titanic long sad movie but walk with me
here okay if I had gone on to the
Titanic during this time period I would
have gotten a job as a male deckhand
making sure that my clothes are nice and
baggy make that eye contact lower that
voice bring those shoulders forward and
I would have gotten pay three times more
than the highest paid female working
position on that ship
however the minute that ship was sinking
and they said women and children first
I’m like off I’m on to those like votes
I am out of there because then at that
point if you’re a dude you have to stay
behind and die I’m not gonna do that are
you kidding me I didn’t think all this
money as a deckhand should have to put
up with that shit
and that is gender capitalism now I
don’t feel bad about it some people
would be like hey you know you’re kind
of supporting these gender stereotypes
and supporting this oppression but
that’s the complete opposite I fight
stereotypes and oppression every day
just by living unapologetically and
letting other people around me live
unapologetically I ask the question when
did we take science and turn it into
shackles when when there was this such a
big factor this whole situation here
when the social opinion becomes fact
that we have to live by when it becomes
so dire to conform to a homogenous
binary standard at one point you know
it’s true the human race I mean we
needed to survive we needed to identify
each other on like genitalia because we
literally pun intended needed to know we
were fucking with because the humans
only lived for like twenty thirty years
at one point I mean we had a hard time
we had to get society going you know we
had to build up the population that was
something we designed so that we could
have a more efficient population but the
human race has enough people now the
population is high enough and in fact we
have dominated the planet to such a
point that we are choking it with our
needs this social design that was once
constructed for efficiency has now not
only become inefficient but has become
detrimental to our well-being and bility
to further our species we don’t need to
grow a population anymore okay we need
to feed the population we have we need
to water the population we have we need
to shelter the population we have so we
need to redesign society to maximize our
potential to do that which means getting
out of the intellectual way of every
single human so we can be the best we
can to solve these problems it is that
simple
so what does it mean for you question on
my talk there’s a little talking point
right there just taking a pivot
well not everybody here with Dean
themselves androgynous I just want to
say every human is androgynous androgyny
is not the opinion of yourself it’s the
other people’s opinion of you and
everyone here is androgynous you should
be ambiguous however right now the way
the society stands a lot of you probably
can’t be able to seamlessly walk through
and pass as male or female on a straight
hard line but being a gender capitalist
doesn’t mean that you have to do that it
also doesn’t mean that you have to not
identify with your own gender you don’t
have to be like I am now in it you can
still say he or she you can say you’re
whatever you want you can identify with
whatever elements of you that you want
to it’s just that you recognize how
society sees gender and you capitalize
off from it and there are only two rules
to do this it is a very simple thing
rule number one just gonna put that
there
eliminate the limits stop telling
yourself you can’t do something because
of who or what you are and stop getting
in other people’s way of exceeding what
society tells they are gonna put that up
there as a plug okay look we were taught
at birth to undercut ourselves okay
we’re taught not to think selfishly and
I know that a lot of us don’t feel
comfortable about bragging about
ourselves or doing things to show off
how awesome we are right you’re not
allowed to be like I’m awesome because
some other persons give like douchebag
you know but the most selfless thing you
can do is be a gender capitalist because
when other people get in your way
they’re not getting dressed in your way
they’re getting on the way of all the
good you have to offer them so they’re
getting in their own way and when you
get in the way of other people you’re
getting in the way of all the good those
people can offer you you’re getting in
your own way so rule number one get the
fuck out of your way get out the way
it’s very simple it’s very very simple
rule number two if you see something say
something
now this slogan is very popular around
the world is used for a lot of things
but it’s popular for a reason and it’s
as simple as it sounds we need to be
advocates for each other for our
co-workers for our family for the person
that we’re dating
hold them to equal standards and no
matter what sex or gender they are okay
even for strangers because those people
might save your life one day those
people might hire you one day those
people might make the bread that you eat
in the morning you don’t know you have
to lift them up and you have to speak up
for them it’s not simple two rules you
do this and you’re gonna stop missing
out on a whole half of your life that
you’re missing it’s not fair your life
you’ve been cheated you lost a whole
half of potential a whole half of
camaraderie a whole half of you and you
had to fight damn hard to get to where
you are right now
be that hard but you have to navigate
through all these social pressures and
it’s not fair so to bring it back to the
beginning let’s imagine a new world a
world where when you’re born they’re not
like it’s a girl
haha or it’s a boy they say it’s a you
and you’re taught about yourself in a
scientific way not a social way instead
of saying uh you’re more likely to act
like this because you’re a male or a
female people will say to you okay um
you have these hormonal levels you have
these chemicals in your body you have
these chromosomal elements and you have
these different physiological attributes
you may be likely to experience life in
this particular way but it’s up to you
if you were taught about how your body
works is a unique machine things would
be different if you learned about you
you wouldn’t feel like oh I’m an angry
girl because you’re not like all the
other girls or I’m an a I’m like a weak
guy because you’re comparing yourself to
all the guys you would compare yourself
only to you we aren’t meant to be
compared to anyone else okay we aren’t
meant to look like anyone else look in
the audience everyone is so different we
don’t look like ants
we don’t look like grains of sand on the
beach and even those things are
different when looked at underneath a
microscope you are not this vessel any
person at any time you could lose any of
your senses sight smell sound taste
touch you could lose any body part you
could lose your dick okay you could lose
your tits you could lose anything all of
the sexual organs internal and external
and when that happens if that happens
heaven forbid that happens you still are
you there’s this thing that goes beyond
the body and not to you that’s the thing
that’s meant to be compared to each
other us not this so it’s that simple we
are not this so get the fuck out of your
way and stop letting opinions get in the
way of the fact that this is your life
and you should be doing everything you
can
to be the best that you can be thank you
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[Applause]
Wow how’s it going well obviously my
name is reine dove I’m a model active ER
active ER activist actor and gender
capitalist and I am nervous as heck but
I’m here for a reason so now if there
are any journalists in the audience and
you’re wondering oh shit what pronoun do
I use for this person a pronoun is just
a sound for me and on listening for in
that sound is positivity so be creative
you can even call me if you want to now
I’m just gonna get a little more
comfortable and make you guys a little
bit more comfortable take off some
things I feel like according to my birth
certificate this is what I should be
wearing technically let’s just get this
down here oh yeah that’s so nice
little red dress in a slicker that’s
nice mm-hmm better so cata bra you have
to go with that this was a freest point
in my life see that little face kind of
like I had no expectations I was just a
lonely sperm traveling with about 250
million other sperm things are pretty
great back then no one told me what to
wear or how to be or how to dress and I
started out life a winner I mean I beat
250 million other sperm to get to this
egg it’s a race that’s bigger than 4.9
thousand times the size of the New York
City Marathon so uh yeah I pretty much
shot out the gate and just you know did
what I got to do and that was awesome
see I was doing just fine until I popped
out of the vagina and then the doctors
ordered three simple words that was
shackle me into my first social prison
it’s a girl
the minute they said those words I was
no longer simply me I suddenly became
she and at that point I also became
measured against everything as she was
supposed to be how I dress talk act love
my level of attractiveness I know guys
calm yourselves even how I gained or
respect or trust the path to obtain my
wildest dreams was suddenly divided in
half and filled with potholes of social
societal pressures that urged me to go
in a certain direction all because of
what was right for my genitals now
here’s the thing as a she here’s how I
measured up it wasn’t pretty I found out
I was actually pretty low on the totem
pole there’s me so soft so sweet that’s
my mother big shout out to mom hi mom
thank you I know she’s a good-looking
woman see the thing is is I looked
around on television on billboards and
in magazines and I just didn’t see the
she that was me
I didn’t see any girl that looked like
me and then I’m gonna quote a lot of
times when I say girl or guy that’s for
a different TED talk but I’m not really
into those kinds of labels see I was
tall and I was muscular I grew up on a
farm that check out that swimsuit bottle
awesome
man yeah Sports definitely pretty
awesome at that fashion sense on point
and I had a lot of weird haircuts in
fact I actually aesthetically looked a
lot more like my first boyfriend in high
school and I see that right there the
resemblance sometimes I wonder if I
dated them just for pure narcissism you
know it’s just like I mean look at that
just one more time look at that oh yeah
we’re gonna leave that creepy face up
there for one second and because of
these things I grew up thinking I guess
I’m an ugly girl maybe I wasn’t meant to
be the housewife material and maybe I
wasn’t meant to be arm candy I figured
out that maybe the she that I was
supposed to be was the girl who survives
the apocalypse and go
on the escapades with her motorcycle in
her shotgun and her German Shepherd that
was my place in life I was gonna be like
Resident Evil you know that was me yeah
you know I’m not a housewife I’m just
gonna shoot some zombies that’s my
destiny right there no be real with me
okay
and if some of you guys might be like
you know crazy miracle workers here but
raise your hand if you chose the body
that you were born in I’m not talking
trance and I’m not talking about like
plastic surgery or anything weird like
that I just literally mean before you
popped out of that vagina did you choose
the body that you came out in no we
didn’t choose this it’s not my fault
that I was born into this vessel and
it’s not your fault that you were born
into this vessel so why is society
punishing me why are they punishing you
why are they getting in your way because
of it if it’s not your fault why are
they limiting you now fast forward when
I was 19 I became a wilderness
firefighter and this was my part of my
attractive career right here check it
out I know a lot of you guys might think
that that’s me right there with the
chainsaw kind of like looking kind of
douchey you doing this um no that’s not
me I wish I could be that miracle worker
see I walked into a room but
predominantly men these men okay and the
first thing they did was call me he my
whole life I thought it was an ugly girl
I’d never been mistaken as a he before I
would have corrected them but then I saw
the way they were talking about the
women in the room and they were
measuring their usefulness
based on how attractive they were and I
realized I had a choice be the ugly girl
or be a dude so I decided to be a dude
and I was gonna tell them the truth
later you know like work really hard and
then like you’re like surprised haha put
shoulder punch but then later turned
into 11 months so it’s a little bit of
time passed before that situation
happened right there
and one time in the middle of fire
fighting I was actually celebrating with
all the men no women allowed and we were
around the fire and somebody said
something that I would consider to be
the most manly thing that has ever been
said we’re all drinking whiskey kind of
illegally and like hanging out around
the fire and one guy says if I die I
need you to promise me that you were
gonna go back to the place that you last
saw me and scoop up some of my ashes and
send it home to my mother I was like
shit got serious man okay we were just
sitting there I felt like a chest hair
pop out and then everybody took a swig
of whiskey and then they all did
something I did not expect they stood up
walk to the edge of the sandstone cliff
in the middle of the desert and they all
started to pee off the cliff together in
solidarity
I’ve never peed in front of these guys
before ever
usually they thought I think they
probably thought like I had to poop a
lot because I just like always you know
went into a place where I could hide or
squat so suddenly I found myself
shoulder to shoulder with these guys
kind of like okay I guess I got to do
this and I took two hands and I’m kind
of like funneling it out trying to get
it out away from me and it got all over
me and I gave me the nickname hobo which
in America means homeless person because
I smelled like urine for a week later on
when they found out that I was a woman
they said that’s impossible and the
medic was like why and they’re like well
we saw his dick he had to hold it with
two hands and my response today is that
a dick doesn’t make a man a man
especially at noon okay at first I
actually thought that being perceived as
a guy was pretty great I was like I got
a golden ticket I found that maybe it
was like a superpower you know like the
ability to be a young white man in
America yeah it was a pretty damn
awesome power for most things but then
over those 11 months well he certainly
did experience and improved quality of
life I also began to experience
disadvantages that I’d never experienced
as a woman and that a lot of guys don’t
really feel like they can talk about for
starters I wasn’t allowed to express
unapologetic sadness or fear
I couldn’t express these things and if I
did I better be able to just suck it up
and show that I’m able to resolve so if
I cry I have to be like but don’t worry
about me bruh you know show their punch
I couldn’t argue full force with another
female firefighter so if a female
firefighter and I were having a conflict
she could yell at me she could even slap
me across the face and she would be
applauded for standing up to herself
against a tall white guy but if I were
to slap her across the face being
perceived as male I would probably go to
jail and then my life would be ruined
now
by the way nobody should ever slap you
could anyone across the face like ever
you know don’t don’t do it I’m not
promoting violence here but if you have
to like in a defense you know anyway and
lastly I realized and there are a lot of
things I realize but these are the top
three I realized that man I didn’t get
any freebies okay as a woman you know
free drinks like free entry into like
places and like you know sometimes you
can’t have like these meltdowns and
people like it’s okay you know no
freebies as a dude none I was expected
to be able to pay my way into everything
and not just pay my way into everything
but also have money in the chamber to
cover someone else I had to have the
ability to pull someone else’s weight
just in case so what I’m saying guys is
you know some of you may have it a lot
easier because of your male status but
I’m telling you you don’t have it easy
either and a lot of people don’t talk
about that so what does this mean
it basically means no matter how we
express ourselves in gender or sex
meinen society’s gonna screw us over we
are screwed it’s not fair my golden
ticket turned out to be just another
flawed form of life that I could live so
I decided to say fuck it fuck it I’ll be
both I’ll be all I’ll be whatever I have
to be to get the most out of my life
because I don’t have time to be
disadvantaged I don’t have time to stand
in a line I’d be polite and be like oh
I’m sorry I’m a girl I can’t do that
we’re like oh yeah lady it’s okay like
you know if I go ahead of me you know I
don’t have time for that shit I got
important things to do on this planet
okay
and now I make a living off from it and
that mentality what I did was first I
studied the common factors society
affiliates with different genders and
sexes and I began to emulate those
qualities various situations to get the
most out of them so when I was in a
situation that was more advantageous to
be seen as female
I would arch my back soften my gestures
and raise my voice hi how’s it going
nice to see you
all right when I was in a situation that
it was seen as more beneficial to be
male I’ve brought my shoulders forward I
made a lot of eye contact I made sure
that everything I said was intentional I
lowered my voice put up my dick
sometimes
just kidding I do that sometimes you
have to I mean you know you’re wrong
situation okay and suddenly when I
started doing this every day my life
exploded in a huge way and after I
accidentally become a fashion model
separate TED talk and actor I found
myself being able to portray all sexes
and genders making twice the amount of
money I would have as an ugly girl and
twice the amount of money I would have
as a decent-looking guy I mean I’m just
not mean to brag but you know hey ok so
now when you google my name you’re gonna
see pictures like this you’re gonna see
some photos like this check that out
right there that’s nice no real alcohol
in that though this one that’s the
Brooklyn Bridge
this one right here nice little lingerie
this one nice it’s a make up campaign
that’s my first Vogue Italia shot oh and
sometimes this Google Images and I were
like having a problem because this thing
when you type in rained of sometimes
it’s at the top of the image thing I
don’t know how many people are looking
up this pigeon but it is very fucking
famous it is so annoying
now after a period of time in the
industry okay I decided to coin this
term I mean this way of life and I
called it gender capitalism now gender
capitalism is when you recognize
society’s perception of gender and make
use of it in the most advantageous way
you capitalize on it for me that
literally means presenting myself as
what society deems to be male or female
and to give a situation to get the most
out of it cuz I don’t have time to fuck
around it’s your fault if you think I’m
something else now I’m gonna give you an
example of how I would use personally
with my superpower jeanna capitalism
Titanic long sad movie but walk with me
here okay if I had gone on to the
Titanic during this time period I would
have gotten a job as a male deckhand
making sure that my clothes are nice and
baggy make that eye contact lower that
voice bring those shoulders forward and
I would have gotten pay three times more
than the highest paid female working
position on that ship
however the minute that ship was sinking
and they said women and children first
I’m like off I’m on to those like votes
I am out of there because then at that
point if you’re a dude you have to stay
behind and die I’m not gonna do that are
you kidding me I didn’t think all this
money as a deckhand should have to put
up with that shit
and that is gender capitalism now I
don’t feel bad about it some people
would be like hey you know you’re kind
of supporting these gender stereotypes
and supporting this oppression but
that’s the complete opposite I fight
stereotypes and oppression every day
just by living unapologetically and
letting other people around me live
unapologetically I ask the question when
did we take science and turn it into
shackles when when there was this such a
big factor this whole situation here
when the social opinion becomes fact
that we have to live by when it becomes
so dire to conform to a homogenous
binary standard at one point you know
it’s true the human race I mean we
needed to survive we needed to identify
each other on like genitalia because we
literally pun intended needed to know we
were fucking with because the humans
only lived for like twenty thirty years
at one point I mean we had a hard time
we had to get society going you know we
had to build up the population that was
something we designed so that we could
have a more efficient population but the
human race has enough people now the
population is high enough and in fact we
have dominated the planet to such a
point that we are choking it with our
needs this social design that was once
constructed for efficiency has now not
only become inefficient but has become
detrimental to our well-being and bility
to further our species we don’t need to
grow a population anymore okay we need
to feed the population we have we need
to water the population we have we need
to shelter the population we have so we
need to redesign society to maximize our
potential to do that which means getting
out of the intellectual way of every
single human so we can be the best we
can to solve these problems it is that
simple
so what does it mean for you question on
my talk there’s a little talking point
right there just taking a pivot
well not everybody here with Dean
themselves androgynous I just want to
say every human is androgynous androgyny
is not the opinion of yourself it’s the
other people’s opinion of you and
everyone here is androgynous you should
be ambiguous however right now the way
the society stands a lot of you probably
can’t be able to seamlessly walk through
and pass as male or female on a straight
hard line but being a gender capitalist
doesn’t mean that you have to do that it
also doesn’t mean that you have to not
identify with your own gender you don’t
have to be like I am now in it you can
still say he or she you can say you’re
whatever you want you can identify with
whatever elements of you that you want
to it’s just that you recognize how
society sees gender and you capitalize
off from it and there are only two rules
to do this it is a very simple thing
rule number one just gonna put that
there
eliminate the limits stop telling
yourself you can’t do something because
of who or what you are and stop getting
in other people’s way of exceeding what
society tells they are gonna put that up
there as a plug okay look we were taught
at birth to undercut ourselves okay
we’re taught not to think selfishly and
I know that a lot of us don’t feel
comfortable about bragging about
ourselves or doing things to show off
how awesome we are right you’re not
allowed to be like I’m awesome because
some other persons give like douchebag
you know but the most selfless thing you
can do is be a gender capitalist because
when other people get in your way
they’re not getting dressed in your way
they’re getting on the way of all the
good you have to offer them so they’re
getting in their own way and when you
get in the way of other people you’re
getting in the way of all the good those
people can offer you you’re getting in
your own way so rule number one get the
fuck out of your way get out the way
it’s very simple it’s very very simple
rule number two if you see something say
something
now this slogan is very popular around
the world is used for a lot of things
but it’s popular for a reason and it’s
as simple as it sounds we need to be
advocates for each other for our
co-workers for our family for the person
that we’re dating
hold them to equal standards and no
matter what sex or gender they are okay
even for strangers because those people
might save your life one day those
people might hire you one day those
people might make the bread that you eat
in the morning you don’t know you have
to lift them up and you have to speak up
for them it’s not simple two rules you
do this and you’re gonna stop missing
out on a whole half of your life that
you’re missing it’s not fair your life
you’ve been cheated you lost a whole
half of potential a whole half of
camaraderie a whole half of you and you
had to fight damn hard to get to where
you are right now
be that hard but you have to navigate
through all these social pressures and
it’s not fair so to bring it back to the
beginning let’s imagine a new world a
world where when you’re born they’re not
like it’s a girl
haha or it’s a boy they say it’s a you
and you’re taught about yourself in a
scientific way not a social way instead
of saying uh you’re more likely to act
like this because you’re a male or a
female people will say to you okay um
you have these hormonal levels you have
these chemicals in your body you have
these chromosomal elements and you have
these different physiological attributes
you may be likely to experience life in
this particular way but it’s up to you
if you were taught about how your body
works is a unique machine things would
be different if you learned about you
you wouldn’t feel like oh I’m an angry
girl because you’re not like all the
other girls or I’m an a I’m like a weak
guy because you’re comparing yourself to
all the guys you would compare yourself
only to you we aren’t meant to be
compared to anyone else okay we aren’t
meant to look like anyone else look in
the audience everyone is so different we
don’t look like ants
we don’t look like grains of sand on the
beach and even those things are
different when looked at underneath a
microscope you are not this vessel any
person at any time you could lose any of
your senses sight smell sound taste
touch you could lose any body part you
could lose your dick okay you could lose
your tits you could lose anything all of
the sexual organs internal and external
and when that happens if that happens
heaven forbid that happens you still are
you there’s this thing that goes beyond
the body and not to you that’s the thing
that’s meant to be compared to each
other us not this so it’s that simple we
are not this so get the fuck out of your
way and stop letting opinions get in the
way of the fact that this is your life
and you should be doing everything you
can
to be the best that you can be thank you
[Applause]
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