We hold all people to unspoken rules about who and how they should be, how they should think, and what the should say. We say we hate stereotypes but take issue when people deviate from those stereotypes.

Roxane Gay
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People have a lot of rules that they follow that are not written down. For example, people have a set of rules they follow that tell them what they can and cannot do in a relationship. They also have a set of rules about how they should think and talk. These rules are not written down but people use them as a guide in their interactions with other people. We all have a set of these unwritten rules, but we all break them sometimes.

Source: Bad Feminist

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