It started with the way women and girls were defined in the culture, the expectations for their futures, and their socialization from childhood. What does it teach girls about their value as women when we behave as if finding a husband, to protect and provide, is the ultimate goal? Who does that endow with power? What does it teach when we prize young women’s physical appearance above all else or model “loyalty” to our boys and men without question, even to our own detriment? What does it teach when we make football—an activity that inherently excludes girls and women on every level except as
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