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TikTok Influencer MJ Gray Spent Years Telling Women To Decenter Men And Avoid Marriage. Now She's Engaged.
If you've spent years telling your followers not to do something, should they be criticized for questioning you when you eventually do it yourself?
By Meredith Evans2 min read
For years, TikTok creator MJ Gray (also known as “texasgardenfairy” on social media) built an audience by encouraging women to decenter men, explaining why she'd never get married and why other women shouldn't feel pressured to do so, and criticizing what she viewed as status-driven consumer culture. Much of her videos centered on women's independence. Many of her videos criticize men's behavior and encourage women to stop prioritizing relationships. So imagine everyone’s shock when she announced that she had been engaged to a man she’d known for 9 months.