The #gaslighting of #girls:
1. Host a gender reveal party before she’s even born. You wouldn’t want the world to relate to her for even one instant of her life absent the lens of gender. 2. Stick a huge bow on her head the moment she’s born; she’s not cute enough without one. /1
1. Host a gender reveal party before she’s even born. You wouldn’t want the world to relate to her for even one instant of her life absent the lens of gender. 2. Stick a huge bow on her head the moment she’s born; she’s not cute enough without one. /1
3. Give her dolls to play with whose eyes and boobs are so huge, and whose waistline and feet are so tiny, she’d topple over if she were real. 4. Pump her food and drink full of hormones so she develops good and early. 2/
5. Dress her in clothes that will subject her to the male objectifying gaze and leave her feeling - and being - exposed. 6. Shame her for looking, dressing, or acting like a “slut.” Not even a common hairstyling technique is safe from that word. #slutshaming #slutstrands
7. Attempt to dictate her birth control choices and deprive her of her reproductive freedoms. 8. Constrict her access to high-paying jobs, seats on the board of directors, elected office, and other levers of power and leadership.
9. Make sure she has a disproportionate share of unpaid labor in the home by enforcing gender stereotypes on her and her partner. 10. Repeat for the next generation.
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