Every girl learns, in varying degrees, to filter herself through messages of women’s relative cultural irrelevance, powerlessness, and comparative worthlessness. Images and words conveying disdain for girls, women, and femininity come at children fast and furiously, whereas most boys’ passage to adulthood – even for boys disadvantaged by class or ethnicity – remains cloaked in the cultural centrality of maleness and masculinity.
-Soraya Chemaly
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