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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - "Dear Ijeawele" and Raising a Child to Be a Feminist

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

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The Seventh Suggestion

When hilary clinton was running for president of the united states, the first descriptor on her twitter account was wife. I think there are many people for whom hillard clinton is not relatable, rit unless she primarily defines herself in domestic terms, wife, mother. We raise girls to aspire to marriage in a way we don't raise boys to e. And so i think what we should do is, in raising boys and girls, teach them that love is wonderful, marriage is wonderful, but none of that is something that one should aspire to. You can change women all you want, if you don't change men, nothing changes. It's men and women.

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