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Thursday, April 18, 2013

"Missrepresentation": the frustrations of a "smart girl".

Nothing is more terrifying than being born a woman.

That's a strange way to look at something as simple and seemingly irrelevant as your gender, but gender changes everything about your life: your clothing, your expectations, your obligations--a simple walk down the street is terrifying for a woman: every man you meet is a stranger or a potential sex offender, even if you logically know it's impossible for all men to be so 2-Dimemsional. That's sounds like a hyperbole--it sounds like I'm full of myself . You'll probably imagine me as either a less-than-average-looking or "ugly" person staring into a funhouse mirror to explain my arrogance, and I really hope that's the case, because if not I'm even more scared.