Does it ever feel good to use your voice and no one hears you. That's not ideal.
So for us and the work that we do with our Archewell Foundation, certainly the work that we do as parents, as I do as a mother, is ensuring that young girls feel as though their voices are being heard, and also that young boys are being raised to listen and to hear those young women as well.
And the same goes for adult women and men. This isn't something that can be solely responsible and in the hands of just women.
Yes, we work incredibly well together as a team, but as my husband, is great testament to the role of men in this of empowering women, of allowing them to know that their voices are heard, starting at a young age all the way through adulthood, is key.
So at the Archewell Foundation, we are very, very dedicated to creating a sense of community, but also one in which women are heard and that their ideas are really felt and implemented in the programming that we do.
So we just recently launched a program called the parents network, which is for parents who have lost children or have encountered the worst possible challenges and level of grief as a result of online harms, and allowing those mothers, those parents, to be heard, is very key to the work that we're doing.
These words directly from MM encapsulate what's so awful about her endavours and the way she goes about them, and also demonstrates why she will never get anywhere with this chimera of do-gooding.
Setting aside the incoherence, the lack of logic, the non-sequiturs, it epitomizes identity politics which is what the right (Republicans, Tories, Reform etc) and imo a good chunk of the left also abhors. And on which the tides of turned and the backlash has already begun (it was always there for some of us).
It's one thing for a woman/girl not to be listened to BECAUSE she's a woman/girl. It's another thing for a woman/girl to be listened to JUST BECAUSE she's a woman/girl.
MM is the perfect poster girl for this: she doesn't have anything intelligent or meaningful or productive to say, but she wants the same attention as women who do, so she falls back on the victimhood of not "being heard" simply because she's a woman, and the right to "use her voice" to get ahead. It's only a matter of time before enough people realise - which they have - before she's busted.
It's not because she's a woman that she's not being listened to. It's because she talks bollocks. That's all there is to it.
With these words she's saying that she's raising her son to listen to and empower her daughter, regardless of substance and content, simply because she's a girl. That's what MM has found in Harry: a man who pays her heed because she's a pretty woman. And she feels vindicated because of it - she bagged a prince, after all. But it can't last. There has to be substance for people to care, and they've both demonstrated time and time and time again that they have none (except, perhaps, Harry with Invictus).
With people like MM, as soon as they're busted they move onto the next thing or next person and ghost whoever and whatever outed them. It's a pattern. The ex-husband; the family members; the job in the RF; the video spiels that went nowhere; the initiatives that withered and died; the charitable endeavours that were carried out once and never again; claims of racism against her unborn child.