A
female
age
36-40,
Cute
writes:This may not be the case with all but I'm sure you'll some of it in your lives too...Well I belong to a country where for a girl/woman all lines start with "you are a girl/woman you are not suppose to...". All the constraints and limitations are put on you just because you are a female. The same happened with me. No sports, no laughing out freely, no talking loudly,... It was a long list. But I fought and fought very hard, I didn't want any one to attach strings on me and use me as a puppet not even my parents.So I stopped listening to senseless advice about dressing, behaving coyly, not speaking my mind out. I literally had to fight tooth and nail for getting the kind of education I wanted(my university was 75k.m away from my house and did apprenticeship about some 150k.m away).I did all the "unusual" things that the girls of my age are not suppose to do. I work now again at an "unusual" place, I like to travel alone without bodyguards even for long distances. I've undertaken night journeys as well.Though I must add that all this doesn't mean that I've landed myself in unsafe situations or thrown caution to the winds(have to take care all the time...)I'm trying to liberate myself in the true sense, where people don't decide what should I be doing and not doing based on my gender. But even now I still get sidelined because I'm a female. In my community parents of young girls hate me and call me an outlaw....And I wonder am I truly emancipated???
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reader, Cute +, writes (3 December 2009):
Cute is verified as being by the original poster of the questionThanks Samii, its just such a lonely feeling to be out of the ordinary, but atleast some of you feel I'm right......
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