afraid, not strong.

I tried to explain how oppressive it is growing up a girl where you’re taught that Bad Things will happen to you because of what’s between your legs, how this reduces a girl to an object and tells her that SHE is the cause for a man’s violence and perversion; but he didn’t get it, quite. I told him it was like being under surveillance, all the time.

I said, “You raised us to be afraid, not strong. See the difference?”

-http://bitchphd.blogspot.com/