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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie _ We Should All Be Feminists
What struck me-with her and with many other female American friends I have-is how invested they are in being "liked." How they have been raised to believe that their being likable is very important and that this "likable" trait is a specific thing. And that specific thing does not include showing anger or being aggressive or disagreeing too loudly. We spend too much time teaching girls to worry about what boys think of them. But the reverse is not the case. We don't teach boys to care about being likable. We spend too much time telling girls that they cannot be angry or aggressive or tough, which is bad enough, but then we turn around and either praise or excuse men for the same reasons. All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to be and not to be, in order to attract or please men. There are far fewer guides for men about pleasing women.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie _ We Should All Be Feminists
What if, in raising children, we focus on ability instead of gender? What if we focus on interest instead of gender?
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie _ We Should All Be Feminists
I looked the word up in the dictionary, it said: Feminist: a person who believes in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes. My great-grandmother, from stories I've heard, was a feminist. She ran away from the house of the man she did not want to marry and married the man of her choice. She refused, protested, spoke up when she felt she was being deprived of land and access because she was female. She did not know that word feminist. But it doesn't mean she wasn't one. More of us should reclaim that word. The best feminist I know is my brother Kene, who is also a kind, good-looking, and very masculine young man. My own definition is a feminist is a man or a woman who says, yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it, we must do better. All of us, women and men, must do better.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie _ We Should All Be Feminists
The late Kenyan Nobel peace laureate Wangari Maathai put it simply and well when she said, the higher you go, the fewer women there are."
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie _ We Should All Be Feminists
But by far the worst thing we do to males-by making them feel they have to be hard-is that we leave them with very fragile egos. The harder a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie _ We Should All Be Feminists
A world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves. And this is how to start: We must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie _ We Should All Be Feminists
I am trying to unlearn many lessons of gender I internalized while growing up. But I sometimes still feel vulnerable in the face of gender expectations.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie _ We Should All Be Feminists
If we do something over and over, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over, it becomes normal.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie _ We Should All Be Feminists
A Nigerian acquaintance once asked me if I was worried that men would be intimidated by me. I was not worried at all-it had not even occurred to me to be worried, because a man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the kind of man I would have no interest in.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie _ We Should All Be Feminists
I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie _ We Should All Be Feminists
I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is just as obvious to everyone else."
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie _ We Should All Be Feminists
And then we do a much greater disservice to girls, because we raise them to cater to the fragile egos of males. We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls: You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful but not too successful, otherwise you will threaten the man. If you are the breadwinner in your relationship with a man, pretend that you are not, especially in public, otherwise you will emasculate him.
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