Sly and Beauteous Reader!
Do you ever swagger?
The far-famed Conflab is the fairest of the fair. Y’all are stuffed with such talent, wit, beauty, courage, vigor and brilliance that the bragging should never stop! But ….
1. Why don’t you brag when you could brag your jaws off?
2. Do you even know how to showboat?
3. When was the last time you tooted your own horn? What was it about? Ha! We’re all gonna FORCE you to brag here!
4. Did you once brag more than you do now? Or…..has the aging process given you the confidence to crow like a crazed banshee and more power to ya!
And….my little brag? TIME magazine just bestowed upon yours truly the STAGGERINGLY GREAT honor of being named to the TIME100—The 100 Most Influential People of 2024
You mean like this little ole thing:
THANK you @TIME for the STAGGERINGLY GREAT honor of being named to the TIME100---the 100 Most Influential People of 2024.
This is a tribute to every survivor in the country!
Lordy, E. Jean Carroll is one tough-as-nails broad, ain't she? This woman from the buttoned-up "silent generation" had the unbelievable moxie to rip that gag off and let it all hang out about her experiences. That's what the whole #MeToo movement was really supposed to be about - not just taking down some high and mighty big shot, but women freeing themselves from the suffocating silence.
And E. Jean didn't just free herself with those brutally honest disclosures. Nah, she freed millions of other women too by showing what real courage looks like in the face of intimidation. This lady's moves have been nothing short of heroic from start to finish.
We love putting women up on a pedestal for a hot minute, praising them for their sacrifices in telling their hard truths out loud. But we're so quick to tear them back down and move on to the next shiny bauble too. Not possible with the tenacious E. Jean though. Her strength, her refusal to shut her trap and go away - that's something we need to flat out bow down to.
She's added her name to that long, hallowed list of women who had to put their wellbeing on the line simply because they refused to be silent victims anymore. Hoping that maybe, just maybe, their voices would finally spark enough outrage to change this messed up reality we live in.
But here's the thing - fighting for justice and ending this darn epidemic of violence and harassment? That was never E. Jean's "job" to begin with. Her only job was surviving. So while we're thanking her for her insane perseverance, maybe we should also figure out how to tangibly make this country safer for women. Paying it forward by doing more than just lauding her courage with empty lip service.
E. Jean Carroll is a modern day hero precisely because she had the grit to do what so many before her could not. Now it's on us to honor that badass energy by actually creating the change she kicked open the door for.
My GOD E. Jean!!! So proud of YOU!! You are a ROCK STAR. Crow away! You stood up to the Orange Monster and won!! xoxo