Brown people will lecture their kids about the dangers of succumbing to peer pressure whilst simultaneously peer pressuring people they know to stay in bad marriages or ‘try for a boy’ Make it make sense.

Since my article in Der Spiegel on Gaza, I’ve received countless messages from Germans. I want to show you this angry email from a professor which is quintessential as it ticks almost all the boxes with the problematic German position. Let’s dissect this🧵

Just two girls packing boxes of sweets that will be distributed to celebrate and announce their girl cousin’s birth. I’m willing to bet this activity will be a core memory for them.

Unpopular opinion but if your parents expect you to put up with someone’s shit as a wife or daughter-in-law then they probably also expected you to put up with their shit as a daughter.

Studies show that for many parents 'gender-neutral' often means buying 'boys things' for girls, but rarely the reverse. It's common for boys to be ridiculed for liking 'girly' things whilst 'boy-ish' girls get praise - and it's because men are still seen as the superior sex.

Studies show that for many parents 'gender-neutral' often means buying 'boys things' for girls, but rarely the reverse. Letting our daughters dress like Harry Potter is easier than letting our sons dress like Princess Elsa because men are still seen as the superior sex.

The problem isn’t that we don’t have enough female leaders, it’s that we don’t have enough fair, just, & kind leaders. Anyone can have those qualities - many men do & many women don’t. Stereotyping these qualities as “female traits” is dangerous. Just look at this picture.

Boys who don’t experience consequences for bad behaviour grow up to be men who act badly in their marriages before they finally become ex-husbands who claim they have no idea where things went wrong (even though their ex-wives made it abundantly clear that they were unhappy).

How was your ex-wife the gold-digger when you’re the one who stole the gold her parents gave her when you got married? “They wouldn’t give my gold back” is something too many brown divorced women relate to.