Smile

A talk about growing up as a girl and then a woman in a culture that teaches you to devalue women and girls, to accept that you are an object and that your value is determined by the way men perceive you, to accept that men will do what they do and take what they want, and you are only safe if a man decides you are safe, to deal with any confusion or rage about this on your own…and why we need to be doing a lot better than this for all of our daughters (and sons)…and for ourselves, too. We deserve so much more and we always have.