“A long time ago, the women’s division was in a different spot. It felt like an uphill battle a lot of the time. I was one of the first people really fighting for it — quite vocally. When you are the first to do something, you get hurt storming the gates. It’s a little rougher. I think it’s worth it because it opens the path for people that come behind you.
”There was an incident on Twitter in which you had posted about equal pay. I retweeted it, and I was like, ‘We’re talking about Use Your Voice. We don’t get equal pay, essentially, yet we’re bringing in more eyeballs than a lot of the men.’ It was probably pretty fiesty [all laugh; Steph says, ‘It was, but that’s great’ and reads AJ’s tweets].
“That to me felt fairly direct. I try not to be rude. I think a lot of people are like, ‘I have no filter,’ and that’s an excuse for being rude. I think you can be direct, but very — practical. I felt it was coming from a practical place, but direct. I was also a bit like, ‘I ain’t got nothing to lose right now.’”
