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Mother. Wife. Telugu-Bihari. Hindu-USDesi.🇺🇲🇮🇳 🌷🌼🌺Unless the lion(ess) learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter.🌺🌷🌼 - African proverb

Jul 7, 2020, 5 tweets

Observations. #90.
"Great Expectations"
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Parents of sons (especially mothers) are often passive-aggressively told that boys need to be taught to respect girls/women. I get it. I agree.
Unless we change boys, society cannot change. However, for society to change, girls +

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need to change too. So here's my question to society: how about girls be taught to respect themselves? To know not to seek validation in a boy/man & put up with all kinds of nonsense in the hope that the caterpillar turns into a knight in shining armor? Jeez. Relax. +

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He's just a boy. The duffer is just as clule-less as you are. Stop hoping he will solve all your problems. How about teaching your girls that if he treats you like crap, you dump his sorry ass instead of blaming the world: "he's such a spoilt mama's boy... +

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all because of Indian culture... blah blah." No. STOP. Newsflash: He's just a boy.

And for heaven's sake, just like you expect from boys, teach your daughters to cook. It's a survival skill... like swimming.

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