“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 would threaten the man. Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same? We raise girls to see each other as competitors not for jobs or accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are.”
Labels
Black Lives Matter
(178)
Politics
(178)
Black Entertainment
(164)
black history
(163)
white supremacy in politics
(137)
Black Feminists Rock
(122)
white supremacy
(115)
Racism in politics
(109)
Black Women Matter
(82)
Black Herstory
(78)
Black Women Rock
(76)
Black History Being Made Now
(67)
quotes
(61)
Colorism
(56)
Black Women
(45)
police brutality
(43)
Emboldened White Supremacy
(38)
Comedy
(36)
Rape Culture
(36)
President Obama
(35)
poetry
(35)
Black Children
(34)
white racism
(34)
Racism
(33)
black men
(32)
Black Feminists
(30)
Entertainment
(26)
Toxic Masculinity
(25)
black lives matter victory
(25)
Black Life Matters
(24)
Sexism in Politics
(23)
victory
(23)
Say Her Name
(22)
White Privilege
(20)
Anti-Racism Victory
(18)
Black Folks International
(17)
In The Meme Time
(17)
Police White Supremacy
(17)
internalized racism
(17)
Black Men For Black Women
(16)
Black Rape culture
(16)
Black Edutainment
(15)
Gun Control
(15)
Anti-racism
(14)
feminism
(14)
Black Panther
(13)
Black Web Series
(13)
Black Female Patriarchy
(11)
Patriarchy Matters
(10)
Light Skinned Privilege
(8)
Michelle Obama
(8)
Barack and Michelle
(7)
Emotional Health
(7)
Hollywood So White
(7)
Environmental Racism
(6)
CINO
(5)
History
(5)
internalized sexism
(5)
black male supremacy
(3)
SOMEBODY TELL ASHY
(2)
Saturday, September 15, 2018
From CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE On Her Birthday
“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 would threaten the man. Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same? We raise girls to see each other as competitors not for jobs or accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are.”
Labels:
quotes
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment