I’ve been watching the documentary Inside the Manosphere by Louie Theroux, and it’s mind-boggling how these influencers appeal to young boys. It makes me happy that in Ottawa I know many young boys who spend their Sundays at the temple and their free time delivering food to seniors! How easy it is to go down the wrong path when there is no alternative positive path to pursue. It’s great that the documentary has brought down some of these influencers, who have stupidly revealed their true intentions and explicitly stated that they’re only in it for themselves. Also great that one of the guy’s girlfriend’s left him – she probably watched herself defending “one-sided monogamy” on screen, not to mention prepping herself for his goal to have multiple wives, and decided enough was enough.
In better news, the Womanosphere is a beautiful place to be!! This past weekend I opened for British comedian Sindhu Vee, and she is a classic example of a positive, kind, and compassionate influencer! She has close to a million followers on influencer, and all of her videos have loads and loads of positive comments. Speaking to her backstage, I basked in her warm presence, as she gave me tips on how to survive as an above-40 woman in comedy and shared a story about how she bombed in Southall in London (can’t imagine her bombing) to a fully desi crowd. She said that you gotta do it for the love it, not to become famous or even to help people. We were deep in conversation when the production manager walked in and said, “Mita, you’re on in 5 minutes!” Ahhhhhh!! So I stood behind the curtain and took a deep breath, with the intention to truly be there and experience the magnitude of the moment. What a thrill it was to share my story, make people laugh, and warm up the crowd for Sindhu.
I was one of 26 female openers, mostly women of colour, on Sindhu Vee’s North American Swanky tour (19 cities). A lot of her UK shows this fall are already sold out! It is her goal to empower and elevate women in comedy. Listen up Manosphere, this is how it’s done – genuinely empowering others, looking out for their best interests, not to make yourself rich, but to make others rich in other ways – rich in experience, rich in life. My niece once asked my sister if they were rich and my sister tried to explain all the different ways in which richness can be part of your life. To which my clever niece replied, “But we’re the money type of rich, right?”
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