Stop Implying That We All Have the Same 24 Hours in a Day as Beyoncé
We really don’t
A former Love Islander and a popular British influencer, Molly-Mae Hague, has recently come under fire after making some pretty tone-deaf comments.
While speaking on the podcast ‘Diary of a CEO’, she said:
Beyoncé has the same 24 hours in the day that we do, and I just think, like, you’re given one life, and it’s up to you what you do with it, you can literally go in any direction.
Right. That’s rich coming from a woman who ‘girlbossed’ her way to success on national television by getting drunk and having sex and then was handed a role of a Creative Director at a multi-billion dollar fashion brand — PrettyLittleThing — overnight.
Still, the intense backlash that followed her Thatcherite remarks started a much-needed conversation about fetishising ‘hard work.’
For ages, we’ve all been gaslighted by people in power into believing the good, old capitalist myth that ‘if you just work hard, you can achieve anything you want.’ But nowadays, it’s not only those at the top that wants us to believe in this crap.
It’s all the influencers, girlbosses, self-help gurus and productivity bros, too.
