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Freeing yourself from conventional expectations.

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In a country where the average woman is a size 14 but a size 00 is coveted, it’s no wonder many teens struggle to accept their bodies.

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Just like every other man around me, moving from place to place attending to their business, as a woman in a just society I expect the same respect. I expect that same ability to tend to my day to day errands without being told by a man in the street that I should put on a certain facial expression to please him.

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When you smell, it’s considered rugged and assumed you have been doing sexy manly things.

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5. Develop an interest in a male-dominated career. Then, do it better than him.

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The sad truth is that even if we were to invest all of our time and resources into making ourselves look like somebody else, most of us would not succeed in complying with the ridiculously unattainable beauty standard created by the media.