I Don't Want to Lean In

In "Baby Cobra," filmed while visibly pregnant, Wong delivers her most quoted bit: a takedown of Sheryl Sandberg's "Lean In" philosophy. Wong's position: she doesn't want to lean in. She wants to lie down. She wants to be a kept woman.

The bit is subversive precisely because it comes from a woman. Wong argues that feminism has given women the "freedom" to work themselves to death, and that the real goal—the one nobody's allowed to say—is finding someone to take care of you.

It works because Wong is the living contradiction of her own argument. She's performing a Netflix special while pregnant. She's clearly not lying down. The joke is the gap between what she says she wants and what she's actually doing—and the recognition that millions of women feel the same contradiction.

The bit launched her career because it said something no one else would: the dirty secret of modern feminism is that everyone's exhausted and nobody's allowed to admit it.