Women and girls are so often not given the permission to be. We are told what it means to be us. We are instructed, given a set of rules that we must follow, and when we don’t the consequences are insurmountable. We are put into small boxes and squashed, because allowing a woman to be herself is a threat to those who want to continue to have the power in society. We are constantly worried that if we cannot fulfil the impossible expectations placed on us, we have failed. And to that, I say: bullshit. I want every girl to have the permission to be human.
