A short monologue from a YouTube video where the speaker reflects on tensions and biases between men's and women's rugby (mentioning the Black Ferns), noting mixed feelings about women's teams being elevated, the need to support and give opportunities to shift long-standing imbalances, and the emotional challenges of internal cultural battles.
Let's be straight up. We look at the women's rugby and the men's rugby thing and how where we sit relative to the Black Ferns and all that, that's been hard to deal with, you know, because it feels like we've kind of been not put down, but like they've been elevated and we're not used to that. So how do we. How does that all work now? Like, we love their success, you know, and we want to. We both can help each other just dealing with some of the past. Like, we all have these biases and it's. Sometimes it's hard to shift, you know, they've had nothing for so long. I'm like, well, unless we give them something for quite a while, it won't change and it'll just be the same. So we have to do that. But yeah, it's fascinating. Battles, eternal battles. But, like, I love it. And then what you get the greatest from is, see, seeing some of those things through.
