5/26/2023 0 Comments Chimamanda adichie feminism![]() ![]() And they grow up - and this is the worst thing we do to girls - they grow up to be women who have turned pretense into an art form. They grow up to be women who cannot say what they truly think. They grow up to be women who silence themselves. ![]() And so, girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. ![]() Cover yourself.” We make them feel as though being born female they’re already guilty of something. There are far fewer guides for men about pleasing women. All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to be and not to be, in order to attract or please men. We spend too much time telling girls that they cannot be angry or aggressive or tough, which is bad enough, but then we turn around and either praise or excuse men for the same reasons. We don’t teach boys to care about being likable. We spend too much time teaching girls to worry about what boys think of them. ![]()
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