Status Updates From We Should All Be Feminists

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KU recommended this to me so let’s give it a go

'So, no, this conversation is about gender. Some people will say, ‘Oh, but women have the real power: bottom power.’ (This is a Nigerian expression for a woman who uses her sexuality to get things from men.)'

Again, interesting correlation with Western gay culture.

'Cooking, by the way, is a useful and practical life skill for a boy to have.'

Which is invariably coded 'gay' in Western culture. And hair dressing, interior decorating, and flower arrangements.

The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations.

We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way boys are. If we have sons, we don’t mind knowing about their girlfriends. But our daughters’ boyfriends? God forbid.

Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.