In this brief excerpt from a YouTube interview, Speaker A challenges Speaker B to finish a story that illustrates how women often need physical help from men in public settings. Speaker A references a vivid scene where several women, wearing high heels, struggle to ascend stage steps before a performance, prompting a discussion about gendered expectations, the social script of male chivalry, and the underlying power dynamics that make men’s assistance a recurring trope. The dialogue uses a crude metaphor (“big balls”) to underscore the perceived need for masculine strength, setting up a broader commentary on how women’s behavior and attire influence men’s willingness to help.
You exude confidence. I've heard you talk, and there's a story that you share.
Okay, it's such a good story.
Oh my God, you got such big balls, if I could be crude to say that. So you talk about women don't actually just say what they want, and there's a story where you're about to go on stage and you see about 5 or 10 other women getting on stage, and they're struggling going up the steps. They've got the heels on. Please finish that story.
Lisa, listen. I think what you saw, I was getting an award. And I was going up some steps. I was getting ready to go up some steps. And I watched every woman before me just go up the steps. And there were no rails. I'm like, no, I will not. There are men in this room. And you were like 6 inches. Yes. Yes. And I'm like, can you help me up the steps? And the guys, they got up. And they helped me up the steps. When I was coming down, a lady was there to help me down. I said, mm-mm, you, can you help me down? Because I believe that women want men to do things, but they take that power away. Women say chivalry is dead, but they walk so fast that they're opening their own doors. You know, they are not allowing a man to help them, but then they say, oh, these men are weak. They're confused. They're not weak, they're confused. Do I help you? Don't I help you? But women don't understand Women have made men feel like it's wrong for them to do those things, or he's thirsty, he's doing too much. And so men just like, well, I won't do anything. And then it becomes, why aren't you stepping to me as a man? Make up your mind, girl, because they're confused. And I believe men like to do those things, but I also believe that women have played a huge part in why they don't.