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We need to be careful what we teach our young girls. Growing up my boomer parents never really taught me anything so I was raised by the TV, and I always felt like I needed to do the same things the men whom I admired were doing. As a teen I was so heartbroken because I couldn& #39;t
play instruments, sing, act, write music or anything like that. My parents made me feel like the only jobs worth doing were the dirty, physical jobs where you have to break your back in half for a miserable pay. They made it sound like that was the only honourable thing to do
(Because y& #39;know, "hard work" is a conservative value!) so I started cleaning up after people& #39;s shit (literally.) After doing that for years, I realized that a part of me was always trying to be like the men I looked up to. My dad told me, "I& #39;m almost 60 years-old and I never go
on vacations" as if that was a good thing, so I think I subconsciously followed in his footsteps. I was on my knees every day doing such a denigrating job for people who didn& #39;t even see me as a human being, and I was so convinced that getting pregnant and having a baby would be
the worst thing that could ever happen to me. While I was kneeling on the dirty bathroom floor, mind you. Looking back, I think it& #39;s because I was constantly told - in not so many words - that I needed to be more like a man, whether by the media or by my elders, and I believed it
I thought I had to work hard and bend over backwards just to prove my worth. I thought I had to have some grand destiny and that I had to show everyone that I was special. I thought that being a simple woman with a simple life would be the death of me. But recently I& #39;ve realized
