Manscaping vs. Mansplaining

It's effectively like doing stand up because I don't I can't have notes, I can't have pieces of paper, and I don't do well with prompters because I just can't be focused in present. So you stand up there and you literally don't know if you're gonna bomb, because they just they're not your typical fans. And what I was supposed to speak about was philanthropy, and philanthropy is very complicated and has many tentacles, and so I just get up and start and wing it and it's going well.

It is going well, and it goes well and people are enjoying it, and you see that they really do want you for the right reasons. They want to talk about philanthropy and giving and how you navigate it and scandal and scams and all these different things. So I talked about philanthropy and all my efforts and how we do it in a different way, and it's rogue and it's transparent and it's direct, and one goes to the effort and how I navigate it and how to get

involved and just like real talk. Not there's no rubber chicken dinners, no pamphlets, no celebrities performing. It's the money to the people. It's our model. I'm proud of it. Billionaires and very wealthy celebrities and individuals come to us to donate because they're sick of the bullshit too. They want full transparency. They're sick of celebrities just posting links. And it's because they're famous that people are donating, but they don't even personally know exactly where the money is

going because they're not handling and controlling the money. So um, it's just a new world in a new way of doing relief work and philanthropy. And I just think it was great. It was a great talk, and I loved that they wanted me to talk about it, and then um, then someone asked me a question in the Q and A about what I've experienced as a woman in business, meaning like being treated poorly or unfairly. You know, there's it's always a question I've gotten, and I often answer it.

This I mean, I didn't know how to answer it for years because I hadn't really experienced it. My own personal experience was I never really thought about being a woman or a man. I just entered into I entered into cocktails, which was a total male driven universe. There were no women in it, there were no celebrities in it. It was the wild, wild West, and I'm putting sugar in my coffee. That's the noise you here. And I

entered into I entered into the cocktail business. Just went in to be strong and proud and and if I had known how crowded it was going to be and how intense it was, I probably wouldn't have entered into it. But I entered into it sucking all in and just

be better than the men. I recently have learned that it's not so overt the way men treat women differently that I did not know what the word man explaining meant until it happened to me recently and I was able to identify it as what all these people are asking me about. Meaning when a man talks to you like in an inferior manner, like you're just a junior partner, they're just sort of condescending and it's not so over

and you don't always realize it. It's just that like, okay, honey, you know, it's a little bit of like a pad on the back, condescending. I'm up here, you're down there. And so I was on stage and I was explaining this concept and how you have to show men where the weemy pad is and it's it's you know, p over here and not over here. And I recently I had to tell someone in an exact equal position to me who spoke down to me, you know that you're

not a senior partner. I'm at a junior partner. We're equals. So let's get the fucking out of the way right now. And it really does it just and not everybody in the workplace is in that same powerful position as I as me as I as I am too correct that, but you can calmly and methodically get the point across. So along the way someone knows not to funk with you, and that you're not open for inappropriate conduct or being

spoken down to, no matter what position you're in. But I was then saying that that's what man splaining was, and I always thought that man splaining was men telling you that they wax their balls. And I said this at the insurance conference and everyone laughed, which is when I realized that, like, it's okay to say balls at an insurance conference. And then I said, I didn't curse today, and I was told I could curse. So I was using my store credit for saying balls. I guess in

the moment. I didn't plan to say balls. I just said it in the moment, and I was Later I was with my assistant Taylor, who's traveling with me, which is effectively the same thing as the TV show Hacks. Literally, I think her name is Jean Smart. I'm Jeane Smart. My assistant is the girl who is her writer and who deals with all the craziness of the two dogs and selling on television and being a insane lunatic driving a Rolls Royce but bargaining for figurines. Like it's effectively

like that, and my assistant. Taylor is in the car with me later and we're crying the fact. She's like, you said balls at an insurance conference. She called her boyfriend to tell him and her parents, and she was laughing, and I said, well, yeah, because I didn't really I never really experienced man splaining, and that's what I thought

it was. And she said, I think that's manscape. Had a calm voice in the car service on the way from Colorado Springs to Denver Hotels, she said, and she doesn't know what any of this stuff means, like girl Boss, she doesn't know who anybody on TikTok is, she doesn't have a social media account that she uses. She's very damn or she's cool, she's amazing. She doesn't know what this fucking ship means. She goes, I think that's manscaping,

and my eyes became saucers. A light bulb went on over my head and I looked over at and I'm like, oh, right, Wax, sing your balls is not man splaining, it's man escaping. And then I proceeded to ask her, like, do you think the audience knew that that's where I meant. I mean, because we didn't figure this outntil later and I should have clarified it, but it was sort of like someone thinking that apple sauce and apple jack's are the same word. I just did not know that it's between those words.

So anyway, many of you know that man splaining and man scaping are not the same thing. So if I get canceled because I said waxing balls and thought man splaining and manscaping or the same thing at my insurance conference in Colorado Springs at the amazing broad Moor Hotel, you should absolutely visit there. It's a gorgeous, gorgeous, amazing, gigantic hotel, good for like business or like a family adventure,

not for like a quiet moment of solitude. But if I get canceled for that, it was worth it because we peed our pants. We laughed. I laughed myself to sleep. I woke up thinking about it, and we cried because only I would say waxing balls at an insurance conference, but it would turn into the greatest laugh I've had of this year, which I think is two. And you know, laughter is the best medicine. If you go on the name of Marcus website to buy something, it's a mafia.

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