The author of Do It Like a Woman explains how she spent her early years trying to avoid a female identity, then woke up to the inspiration of feminism
Women are a bit rubbish, aren’t we? A bit boring. A bit trivial. Just look around you. Women make up only 24% of the subjects of global news stories, and on any given day, the lead stories in the UK have an 84% chance of being about men. Women feature in only 16% of political news stories, despite making up 29% of parliament (not a figure to be proud of in any case). Women are either entirely or mostly absent from the school curriculum, and so uninteresting that they make up less than 30% of speaking roles in feature films.
Obviously, the reason for this is that women are just rather unimpressive overall. That was certainly what I believed as a teenager and in my early 20s. I grew up believing I had to transcend my accident of birth. I was born with a vagina but I identified as a person, and I was desperate to prove myself despite my unfortunate genitals.
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