208 MORE years until gender equality in the U.S.?! No. Nope. Nuh-uh. Share why #EqualityCantWait
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hi I’m Maya Rudolph do you love bad news
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then you’re going to love my friend
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Melinda Gates according to the World
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Economic Forum it will take us 208 years
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to achieve gender equality in the United
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States what that’s the most specific bad
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news I’ve ever heard 208 years um over
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my dead vagina
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that’s 1456 dog years I’m telling you
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bitches never get a break I guess that
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would be my great-great-great-great
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great-great-great grandchild and I hope
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it’s a girl best sure yeah that’s bad
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for humans but pandas only live about 20
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years why is it that I can order a bag
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of dicks shaped gummy bears with
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same-day delivery but I have to wait two
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hundred and eight years for gender
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equality
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that means 26 generations of panda bears
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will live and die before we finally see
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a female panda president women are
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currently less than 25% of Congress and
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that’s the highest it’s ever been which
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you know it’s fine because women are
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about 25% of the population what’s that
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it’s 50% that’s that’s not so bad if you
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don’t think about it like if you never
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ever think about it and what world does
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it make sense that I make less money
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than fred armisen that guy thinks this
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video is about pandas you know what
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forget about it I want to come back as a
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lesbians cat alternatively we could just
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haul ass to Canada tonight I’m serious
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like cars outside
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the pay gap is so bad right now that the
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average woman’s income is less than a
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Venice Beach mine and they’re great they
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have no walls but you think they’re in a
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box
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women are in a box of oppression do men
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get paid more than women for the same
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job yes but think about how much work we
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do not only do we have to pitch our own
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ideas we also have to pitch our female
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co-workers ideas moments after they said
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them but a little quieter and that’s why
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we don’t smile more here’s a fun fact in
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the fortune 500 there are fewer female
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CEOs than male CEOs named
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James we demand areas and in dramatis in
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the boardroom
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Shannon’s Diane’s
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ask yourself this in 208 years how far
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will manspreading have spread
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I don’t know 208 years isn’t that long
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if you’re one of those big fucking
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Turtles that lives forever I’m gonna
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check my notes huh that’s weird just as
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this is bullshit on every page do you
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want to Nate yes very I mean what are we
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doing you guys know I have three
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daughters right this is actually
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terrifying it’s scary to two hundred
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eight years is scary I want to live then
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so what that’s really saying is not only
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will I not experience it no one on this
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planet that exists right now as a woman
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will experience it back in the covered
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wagon days when I was doing my show if a
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woman was forceful she was a bitch if a
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man was forceful he was forceful these
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qualities that we really applaud in men
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are looked at in women as being negative
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things and that’s just sexism at work
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right there I once reported sexual
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harassment at my place of work and I
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wanted the guy gone and I was questioned
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are you sure are you sure you want that
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and this whole two hundred eight years
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thing it just makes me think our women
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gonna have to be asked are you sure for
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another 208 years and what’s so
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depressing in the here-and-now is that
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they’re aggressively trying to strip
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what rights we do have and it’s it’s
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heavy you know here’s the good news we
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can change this together
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I guarantee men’s lives will be better
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if women’s lives are better too
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let’s get equality done faster like in
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our lifetime we can do this share your
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experience no matter what gender or
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sexuality you are and let us not forget
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the panda bears yes it feels good to
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share cat and panda videos but wouldn’t
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it also feel good to change the world
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208 years is no joke I invite you to
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have one conversation this week about
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gender inequality at home with a friend
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at work Oh get talking so we can change
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this hashtag equality can’t wait booyah
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what are we gonna do Rufus just keep
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playing
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[Music]
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for gender equality
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[Music]
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