We teach girls to
shrink themselves To make themselves smaller We say to girls,
"You can have ambition But not too much You should aim
to be successful But not too successful Otherwise you will
threaten the man." Because I am female I am expected to
aspire to marriage I am expected to make my life choices
Always keeping in mind that Marriage is the most important
Now marriage can be a source of Joy and love and mutual
support But why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage And
we don't teach boys the same? We raise girls to see each
other as competitors Not for jobs or for accomplishments
Which I think can be a good thing But for the attention of
men We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings In the
way that boys are Feminist: the person who believes in the
social Political, and economic equality of the
sexes.