When you grow up as a girl, it is like there are faint chalk lines traced approximately three inches around your entire body at all times, drawn by society and often religion and family and particularly other women, who somehow feel invested in how you behave, as if your actions reflect directly on all womanhood. M.E. Thomas
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When you grow up as a girl, it is like there are faint chalk lines traced approximately three inches around your entire body at all times, drawn by society and often religion and family and particularly other women, who somehow feel invested in how you behave, as if your actions reflect directly on all womanhood. The bright side of being a girl is that you are allowed to enjoy being a girl. You get given the freedom to be girly without being told anything about what it means to be a woman. You get to dress up, wear pretty dresses and have the freedom to play with dolls without being told what dolls are really for.

However, there is a dark side to being a girl, too. Men will always see you as a prize for winning the beauty pageant. They will only see your worth if you look beautiful and that means that they can treat you accordingly.

They will want to hold power over you and try to control your every move just because they feel entitled to do so.

Source: Confessions Of A Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding In Plain Sight

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