I believe with all my heart that we women are in no way inferior to men—especially when it comes to wisdom, resilience, and the raw strength of our spirit.
If you dare to dig into history, you’ll uncover countless women of brilliance, their names stretching across every field imaginable. These were women who refused to bow to the suffocating chains of gender prejudice, who rose like the sun in all its blazing glory, fighting for their beliefs and ideals despite the endless deprivation, disadvantage, and oppression of a world that worshipped men and scorned women.
But you—you’re letting the buzzing whispers around you cloud your mind, dim your soul, and blind you to who you truly are. Those poisonous words telling you a woman must be beautiful, as if beauty is the only worth we possess, the only thing worth mentioning. That women should pour their lives into family, that women should sacrifice their careers for their children, that in a relationship, women must be the ones to understand, to forgive, to endure. It’s all bullshit.
Even the way a little girl is raised is drenched in these suffocating expectations of femininity and subtle venom of discrimination. She’s handed dolls and toy kitchens, groomed from the cradle to grow up caring for others, tending to a family. She’s draped in pink, told those toys, those games aren’t for girls—that she should speak this way, act that way, yield and behave just so.
Now look at how a boy is brought up. He’s given cars, robots, guns—taught to be strong, to stand on his own, to conquer the world, to chase his dreams with unrelenting fire.
From the very first breath, a girl is boxed into gender stereotypes, molded to be patient, enduring, sacrificial.
Open any traditional Asian novel you’ve ever read, and you’ll see it plain as day: the male lead, wild and reckless, often insufferable; the female lead, always sensible, patient, bending over backwards to please him. Don’t let this upside-down world keep feeding you these twisted notions day after day.
Wake up, girls!
I believe that if you read the right things, set the right mind, you’ll see—you’re extraordinary, you’re brilliant, you’re wise beyond measure, no less than anyone else. You are so much greater than you realize.
You might not believe in yourself, but I do.
I believe in you with everything I have.
