I don't know when I knew that sons were more important than daughters, but I still clearly remember my mother asking if I wanted to have a little brother. When I was 3 years old, I said no, and I was strangled when I was born. In the second grade of elementary school, when my grandmother reprimanded me but did not reprimand my cousin who did the same wrong thing, I asked in front of all the adults: Do you prefer sons to daughters? From then on, I have a pimple in my heart and I don't want to go to my grandma's house.
Am I a feminist? I'm.
I feel discrimination against women at work in my life. There is systemic discrimination that many people are unaware of, and there is blatant discrimination.
When I watched The Handmaid's Tale, I felt a heart-wrenching suffocation. But when I recommend this show to male friends, they are interested in how to have sex.
Are men and women really different psychologically? What kind of society has brainwashed women into a character of inferiority? Is it telling you from a young age: Are boys smarter than girls/better teachers in science? Is it the family who advised you to choose a major/work that is "for girls"? Is it telling you that women marrying is the most important society for people?
If women are not awakened now, and even stand with those men who discriminate against women and look down on women, then the world of handmaids is not far from us.
When you encounter something unfair, you must speak up and do it for the rights of yourself and other women, because if women can't help themselves, no one can really help women.
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